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

As an actor, I don't have any politics. As an actor, I'm driven more by an authentic - I would say an obsessive-compulsive-disorder level-fixation on mimicry, tonality of voice, to literally imitate something until I can just disappear into it.

I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.

I do find myself drawn more to pieces that I feel are wrestling with the way that we're living now, what we're all going through.

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

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.

Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.