If you explode onto the scene at a very young age, there are so many people pulling you in different directions. It takes time to recalibrate and see what's important.

I always used to say to myself, I'm going to die of lung cancer. That's the choice I'm making.

I'm one of those actors where usually I'll read a script, and then I'll have a flurry of notes. I'll ask a hundred questions about things, and really get in there and examine it.

I don't just like to have 1 take, but not too many. I think it is good to keep it alive.

Film is very much about capturing the essence of things - if you feel it, and you've got the right person shooting it, it'll come across. Theater's a different animal; it's physically different and requires a different discipline. In the theater, you're mining the same material, constantly honing the same thing, executing it and keeping it alive and fresh.

The further you run from your sins, the more exhausted you are when they catch up to you.

I'm a huge fan of 'The Exorcist.'