You can't keep wanting to be 20 years old. Everybody knows that, but what's in the next room?

I've had several moments in my career where it seemed like I might not age out of the bracket the world wants to put you in. It's hard to keep growing up inside the performing arts. It's very difficult, and presents a lot of unique challenges.

If you don't risk doing something foolish, you'll never do anything special.

I love really exploring... you know, a cop drama for example is a great way to explore class in this country and explore, you know, really, identity in the country and who we are in a way that is extremely exciting, but it's also real, you know, it's also real people and real drama. The same with the military. I mean, a good science fiction story is also great.

Whenever a really passionate, talented filmmaker seems to have an interest in me, I take it very seriously because I like to work.

One of the things I can do is to try to put myself in different kinds of movies and that kind of subtly changes my work. By the time my obituary is written, I want there to be a great western and a great comedy.

The more kind of head trippy sci-fi. I always like that. I was a big 'Twilight Zone' freak.