I don't do stunts - I do running, jumping and falling down. After 25 years I know exactly what I'm doing.

I don't mind playing older characters. I find it interesting. There are parts I couldn't have got when I was 30 years old. So, it continues to interest me in the same way that it always did.

I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.

I think American films right now are suffering from an excess of scale. Lots of movies we're seeing now are more akin to video games than stories about human life and relationships. Twelve- to 20-year-olds are maybe the largest economic force in the US movie business. I'm not a very nostalgic person - but I enjoy a good story.

Never claim credit for anything. 'Cause you can't righteously do that. There's luck and grace and accident.

I don't take trouble at all to conform a screenplay to my iconography. I don't say, "We can't do that - the audience wouldn't accept it." I try to take the limitations of what is required to play a leading character and then screw with them.

The only ambition I ever had going into and committing to wanting to be an actor was to live my life.