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

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.

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.

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

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.

My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me.