For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.

The interesting thing with acting, actually, is that you get to be so many different people that you get to do so much research on so many different things that I've learned so much about brain surgery and about astrophysicist-type of things and traveling to amazing parts of the world.

I kind of knew it wasn't going to be until my 30s that I really hit my stride as an actor.

It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.

I'll always take an artistic endeavor over a career move.

I always think a good sports movie is emblematic in the same way that a great Greek tragedy really has a certain kind of structure, or a Shakespearean play if you're looking at a comedy or a tragedy, is that these are the heights and depths of human emotion.

I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time they're done. You have a movie testing 200 times, making adjustments according to various people's opinions. It's difficult to have an undistilled vision.