I think it's possible to be free in a big production. It's the eye of the director and the actor and the story.

The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.

I always found something strangely paternal about the director-actor relationship. Actors want so much approval.

I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.

Yeah, September 11 happened and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.

I always think back to the original movies and to those quieter moments where Luke is out in A New Hope, and there are the two suns setting. It is the equivalent, basically, of a farm boy dying to get out of his small town and do something bigger. It's those kinds of universal themes that ground this whole thing in space.

I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.