Occasionally, I have time to go to the theater, and I think for a minute, 'Man, I'd really love to be doing a play right now.' Because I loved doing plays when I was doing them. Then I think, 'I want to do it right now, but will I want to do that Sunday matinee in six weeks?'

Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.

When Steven Spielberg comes calling, it behooves you to seriously consider it.

I wouldn't say 'Avatar' changed my life, but it definitely changed my career.

Fortitude, determination... in a way they're things that I idealize myself and am curious about.

I loved Laurel and Hardy and TV shows like 'Robin Hood' and 'Rama of the Jungle'.

On some level acting is the art of pretend and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have to be able to see things that aren't there no matter what aspect of acting, whether it's green screen, whether it's on stage, whether it's anything else, whether you're working on the radio.