Directors go their whole career without being able to tell personal stories and to work with a cast as talented as they are.

I don't want to know about the lives of other actors and I don't want people to know too much about me. If we don't know about the private lives of other actors, that leaves us as clean slates when it comes to playing characters. That's the point, they can create these other characters and I can believe them. I think if you're a good enough actor, that's the way to longevity in the film business. Keep everybody guessing.

Working out is incredibly boring. I swear it's true that the bigger your muscles get, the fewer brain cells you have.

It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.

I want to be able to just act and never do any interview, but I don't have the balls to stand up to the studio and say, "I'm never doing another interview in my life!"

If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest.

My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message.