Joaquin Phoenix

Joaquin Phoenix is an american actor who has been typed by the admins of this site as ISFP

Quotes

 * "It's hard for me to put my feelings into words."
 * "I know if I'm lost in the moment or not."
 * "From a very young age, I had an allergy to—what’s the word?—to just frivolous, meaningless kids’ stuff"
 * [On 'Joker']: "It’s so easy for us to—we want the simple answers, we want to vilify people. It allows us to feel good if we can identify that as evil. ‘Well, I’m not racist ’cause I don’t have a Confederate flag or go with this protest.’ It allows us to feel that way, but that’s not healthy because we’re not really examining our inherent racism that most white people have, certainly. Or whatever it may be. Whatever issues you may have. It’s too easy for us and I felt like, yeah, we should explore this villain. This malevolent person."
 * [On Lynne Ramsey]: "Neither of us are very verbal. We don’t like to intellectualize about the character."
 * "[Lynne Ramsey is] like me, she likes to experience things."
 * Lynne Ramsay: "[He is] about the process, not the aftermath."
 * Garth Davis: "Working with Joaquin is like working with this beautiful wild animal, where you have to give him the space to be free, so his performance can roam freely: raw, uncontrived and truly natural."
 * Vanity Fair: "Phoenix’s moral intensity and sense of comedy—that laugh—define his talent as an actor, along with a sense of vulnerability."
 * Vanity Fair: "Phoenix, however, has often disliked doing read-throughs, part of his own mercurial “let it happen” style."
 * Esquire: "...when I asked some of his recent directors about him, their responses were almost reverential, way beyond the usual luvvie fluff, painting Phoenix as not merely an immense talent, but also a rare human being, profoundly intuitive and kind, who embodies a distinctive form of ethical and creative purity."
 * Esquire: "...he was never the bandwagon type"
 * Esquire: "Never one to spiff himself up without a really good reason, Phoenix arrived today in a dusty SUV and cargo trousers, with a safety pin dangling off the side of his sunglasses because 'I haven’t bothered to get the screw put in.'"