Sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical. I'm more interested in the kinds of movies where the science fiction world has a set series of rules and you operate in it because of, maybe, constraints in the budget.

I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences.

That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.

So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.

For some reason, I have a very strange conception of time. I am constantly hovering at some overview, more macro.

One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.

When you're reading Chekov, you're in this world that he's created. I never would have created that world. I don't know anything about that time period or that setting or those groups of people or what those experiences were, but oh my gosh, it's amazing to daydream on it and put yourself there.