I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want.

Believe it or not, I got into the charismatic, shady, sly heart of Sedgewick Bell by watching CNN and C-SPAN.

There’s something about the good-hearted guy fighting the system. I just love that. That’s how Speed is. He’s a really focused guy with a heart of gold and the corporations are trying to crush him and use him for his skills to make them more money.

I'm a very, very conservative driver.

I identify with someone wanting something to work out, but not being able to get through the rocks to the river.

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.