When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.

I would never want to vilify somebody who considered abortion murder. I was an illegitimate child myself. I may not have existed today.

It's the post-literate generation that is most disturbing to a movie-maker. The explosions and the knifings. People like to go to what's hot and you can't get past a certain gross unless you involve children who go more than once.

I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.

There's probably no one who understands Method acting better academically than I do, or actually uses it more in his work. But it's funny - nobody really sees that. It's perception versus reality, I suppose.

Men dominate because of physicality, and thus they have mercy where women do not.

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.