I'm not really a guy who wants to be a director, anyway.

Songwriting and screenwriting aren't that different to me.

It's not that I don't understand it. But people think if you speak with an English accent it somehow makes you smarter.

Nowadays the movies that people are going to see in the theaters are the big-event movies, like Spider-Man or something, or they're 25-year-old models who are vampires, or they're very broad comedies, or they're standard action movies. So if you're going to work for a studio and do a movie for the budget that the movie needs, those are the kinds of movies you'll be in.

I can't sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn over the furniture.

When I was coming up, if you were on a TV show, that meant something was wrong with your career. Now it means something's right with your career.

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.