We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession.

Your shame will be your torture, and your torture will be your life. I wish it long.

We had a work session [in "Moneyball"] where about 30 scouts came in and we're all riffing. And after it, [director] Bennett Miller said: Look at these faces and this is what we have to got to do. We got to get these guys in the scene.

Basically when you whittle everything away, I'm a grown man who puts on makeup.

Iliad by Homer is one of the great stories in literature. And I thought its themes really resonated today, whether that was my projection or Homer's intentions. It didn't seem like we had come very far.

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all

I grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri, and I just loved film. My folks would take us to the drive-in on summer nights, and we'd sit on the hood of the car. I just had this profound love for storytelling.