One of the things that's awesome about being an actor is that you get to do stories, live lives and have experiences that you never could have even conceived of, and that's because you're living in another writer's imagination and another director's imagination.

I think I am looking as an actor to find ways to push myself into places I haven't been before as a human being.

Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.

I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.

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.

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

It seems to be this hot-bed for these ideas and bringing these groups together. You find that the one thing that everybody has in common, whether they're a teenager who has run away from his parents, or a divorcee who lost her husband, is that they all have in common this feeling of searching for a meaning in their lives.