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.

I'm really happy with where I am, the movies in my life. Not satisfied, necessarily. But I won't put it on somebody else, blame anybody else for my position in the business. It's the choices I have made.

I'm definitely one of those people that what comes into my head falls out of my mouth. That's a way for me to be even more creative, to sort of get the ball rolling and start parlaying off of somebody and interacting. That charge or that friction sometimes - if it's positive or negative - is inspiring, and it gets people to be I think creative, maybe.

There's the concept that if I do this big budget project, then that will help me do the things I really want to do and bring more money to those films.

I'm old fashioned with my cell phone. I like that human contact and I think it's important.

If I had to choose criteria, for me, it's about first the director. I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging. After the director it's the character and the story. That's the deal for me.

I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema.