A lot of writers, because they don't understand actors, feel like, in order to be better at their performance, they have to change the words around a lot.

If you do improvising, it can sometimes end up being a waste of time. And if you do that, it's more or less based on a writing process.

What an actor says is much, much less important than a life, so that's the great use for improvisation; you go, you find the life and then you add the words.

For me, acting is all about the aesthetic. I just want to keep honing my craft. Not that I'm taking myself too seriously, but every artist should consider himself Picasso. Otherwise, you're doing yourself an injustice.

Without Scientology, I would be in an alley somewhere looking for dope.

I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy, not merely a belief system. Yeah, it's had media exposure because certain luminaries do Scientology, but millions of people do it who are not celebrities. It's not a threat or some cult.

I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging.