There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to go to war, then you're saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case

You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.

You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.

For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.

I'm not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrities for being ill-informed or naive, but I've got a right to say what I believe

You have to be willing to expose yourself, at least to yourself, to get to some kind of truth about a character.

I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.