How much cooler was Oz than seeing the little dude behind the curtain?

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

On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.

A lot of the stuff in 'Speed Racer' has never been done before, from it having a multi-tone, to it having a retro-cool family movie, to having the photo-realism with the CG-backgrounds and infinite focus the way they worked with these digital cameras, to even the color experimentation.

The genres are widening. I don't think that there's as many limitations on the kinds of projects that actors can do as there once was.

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

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