I think we, especially in American culture, are so afraid to talk about death. And I'm not talking about literal death. I'm talking about shedding skin. I'm talking about rebirth, ultimately, and how we continue to change as human beings and continue to grow. There's that great Henry Miller quote, "All growth is a leap in the dark."

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next

Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian.

My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it.

We hung out a lot together. We went and saw films together. It was really actually quite easy. I think we were all very subconsciously connected in knowing that we needed to make it important, and therefore it just became important and it worked. Everybody had a lot of respect for each other. I think respect is the most important thing you can have.

I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality

Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends.