There is never a personal-life connection between my characters and myself. I'm a professional and I can access what I need to access, so there's no bleed-over. I didn't need to believe in aliens to play Mulder. As for my personal life, everything is fantastic right now.

A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them.

Becoming an actor made me way more interested in plot.

Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say, 'Trust me,' they're actually being very un-American.

In the general sense, there's a journey to be had. You either start at the top or the bottom for a journey to happen. Our movie has to start at the top and work it's way down. Or start at the bottom and work it's way up.

When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world.

I don't think I'd ever be cruel to an animal.