Very often on films, even without a producer credit, I'll be involved, very early on. I want to be there as the thing is taking shape.

I never really look at life and worry about missed opportunities.

I dread karaoke. I hate karaoke. I can't sing - that is why.

The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren't traveling that much. At 19 he travels to Italy. He goes to the Spanish Civil War. He goes to China, he goes to Africa so at that time to travel that much is really incredible.

After drama school I did a seven-month tour of Europe performing in 'Romeo and Juliet.' I played Romeo.

You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other, the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.

Movies are certainly a director's medium, so getting the opportunity to work with really good directors is everything to me.