If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.

I always feel like the editing room is like coming into the kitchen. What kind of a meal do you make from there? It can be anything.

The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If Im afraid of it, then I want to do it.

I'm really into rocks. I have a really serious rock collection. Rocks and feathers and shells and strange found things in nature. I have a lot of those kinds of collections.

A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.

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.