What has always been most interesting about acting to me personally is that it affords you the chance to shift gears, both in terms of the experiences you get to have through doing it, but also the different kinds of things you get to represent.

If I'm trying to put size on for a role, then I don't do much running.

There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.

Sometimes their oppression of emotion and the weird way it comes out is more interesting than painting it in bold primary colors.

With Edward Norton you'd never say, "This is the one we're going with whether you like it or not." It has to be agreed upon.

I'm a Tulsa Jew and I have a religious upbringing.

I grow tired of intelligence having such a limited manifestation in movies - "intelligence" usually meaning coastal, with a certain level of formal education.