Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige, my friend.

I had a huge advantage with Edward Norton because he's directed a movie before, so one thing he appreciates is how hard my job is, he's very sensitive to that. We actually ended up finishing "Leaves of Grass" a day early.

I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.

I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass.

When people come together too young, they try to become one person. As you get older, you realize that you don't want to become one person because then you lose the person you are.

People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest.

If there's a criteria that really gets me interested in a work besides any type of personal interaction with the theme, it's if I feel like this is the right piece of work for that director at that moment in their career.