You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label.

Young people know how to use these social networking tools, and they know how to use them effectively.

I wish I were more musically gifted, more intuitive in playing instruments.

I don't think you should sit around and wait for people to give you an opportunity to express yourself or do your work, or whatever. Actors have to be producers and writers have to be producers.

When I'm looking for Zen and I'm not saying this facetiously at all - I would really rather surf, scuba dive, or fly my plane. And, when I feel tension about the grind of work, it's not getting the money to make films versus making films that constitutes the grind, it's all this stuff.

I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.

No, I'm not a very methodologically pure actor.