Sometimes in the middle of a presidential campaign, there's a political movie, and people are sick of hearing about politics, and they don't want to see that movie. They'd rather see "Godzilla."

Definitely, my approach is me-oriented. I feel like my job is to safeguard the believability of the emotions of the character.

My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.

After I left LA... it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning.

If you show up in L.A. with your shirt inside out or socks mismatched, people start putting change in your cup.

Why can't people just say they were moved? Why do they have to say it's sappy?

A movie's very different from the book, and it's different from the script, and it's usually one person's vision.