Life's hard. It's supposed to be. If we didn't suffer, we'd never learn anything.

The thing that makes a great genre movie is one that's not just entertainment, not just horror or sci-fi or whatever. The ones I love are the genre pictures with some subversive message underlying it all.

I did this movie right after it about the life of Chet Baker. It's called Born to Be Blue. In that situation, there's a real clear character you're drawing on. It's a real person. It's really exciting and interesting to do the research to figure out how to make that a nuanced, three-dimensional human being.

The older I get, the more I realize how rare it is to meet a kindred spirit.

You need to be a good screen partner. It's very meaningful to me to be a part of great acting performances.

I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I'm not.

If I do three movies in a year, I don't feel like acting ever again.