You know when somebody really knows what they're drawing from and you can feel it when you see the movie.

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'm not a very methodologically pure actor. Almost every time that I start, I feel completely at sea. Always at the beginning I feel like a fraud, really, because I'm never sure how to get started.

Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.

I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.

Unpopular speech is absolutely vital to the health of our nation.

I think technology is having a democratising effect on film.