Fear runs our lives a lot of the time. You can face it head-on, or you can hide in your bunker.

Anybody who's gone through puberty has understood what it feels like to be an outcast and alone.

No matter how bad the individual, everybody has reasons for why they do what they do.

Generally speaking, the more money that's involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it's not going to fail.

I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.

[ The Finest Hours] reminded me a lot of a film I did called Unstoppable in that you have a driving thriller aspect of the film and it's not all that complicated of a story and there's a simple elegance to it. I liked that. It is also driven by a really strong romance and ordinary men doing extraordinary things. I love that.

When you want something enough, it brings out primal emotions. You get into this place of 'must happen, must happen.'