I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.

If you try to make interesting films, you're going to be disappointed most of the time. I choose just not to look at it that way.

Most of the movies that I've made that I really felt good about and cared about made very little money anyway, so I'm not particularly worried about people downloading and sharing them.

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

I'm an actor, and, beyond that, the thing I do most compulsively is writing. So I come at it very much from this sense of character. I get interested in people. And I feel confident in my capacity to absorb and manifest the characteristics of people. I have a real auditory hang-up for dialogue; re-creating the way people talk really is an addiction in my brain.

A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.

Screenplays aren't written to be read, they're written to be made into movies.