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.

We went to - I guess it was a legitimate boiler room, and I sat in front of this guy who literally was on the phone with two people at once. They call it double fisting.

I love talking about Scientology.

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.

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.