One of the great tools we use in acting is the idea of immediacy, that the audience gets to see you witness something apparently for the first time, so you create a lot of tools to kind of trick yourself into making it appear something is happening for the first time.

From here on out, I am only interested in what is real. Real people, real feelings, that's it. That's all I'm interested in.

A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal.

I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I don't want to do anything peripheral that is going to make an audience see me up there on the screen rather than who I'm playing.

If I had done 'Titanic,' it would have made, probably, $200,000 - worldwide. So I think my life would have been very, very similar.

My parents were really encouraging. But I had to teach them the proper way you respond to an actor after seeing a play - regardless of whether you like their performance you tell them how great they are because they have to go on again the next night.

I wish I could say that when I didn't agree with a director I defer to him, but I think sometimes I'm a little self-righteous.