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

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

The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning.

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.

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

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.

I've realized that what you think of when you make a 'big movie,' if it's actually a green screen movie, it's like doing independent New York theater because you don't have any backgrounds or props. So it's kind of like making the lowest budgeted film you could possibly imagine, plus $100 million.