I remember Tetro was a big deal to me at that time. It was going from zero to one: Never having been in a movie, a person who had no relationship to any of that, and that was my first movie.

I'm glad to be an actor to be employed by people who are now 12, probably. I look forward to that.

Each time demands its own kind of film.

Even though I grew up in L.A., no one in my family was in the movie industry.

I think you always feel like you're about a hair's breadth away from being a bad actor anyway... It's not too hard to let the rope go slack, so to speak.

Each film and each character is a completely new set of challenges. It doesn't feel like you can rest on something you may have done well in the past.

The biggest challenge to being an actor is when you're not working, just being unemployed, the downtime and not having anything to do.