I was so grateful to have made 'Into the Wild' before I made 'Speed Racer' because on 'Speed Racer' I was indoors every single day, every single scene, on a green screen. Some of the time, just to pass the time, I would think back to climbing mountains in Alaska. That really helped me.

I had the misfortune of getting what skateboarders call hippers. It's when you fall on your hip again and again and again, just the same spot. It turns into like a blue purple bruise and it's just torture because I had to keep on doing the same move, going around in the pool again.

I'm not staying away from any genre. I'm trying to get scripts that I like.

When you're reading Thoreau you look at Hollywood differently, let me tell ya!

We want to do for 'Hamlet' what Baz Luhrmann did for 'Romeo and Juliet' in terms of like a really cool kind of re-imagining.

Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.

I don't really like the slogan 'It boy.'