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.

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

What's sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype; to allowing yourself to become validated by others and no longer by yourself. That's the danger of celebrity

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

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.

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.