I have a profound respect for cinematographers. That is my secret sauce. Like they are everything to me.

Working with Robert, Robert [Elswit] is a storyteller. He's not a cinematographer, he's a storyteller. And to me, that's the graduation I hope to get to in my profession. That I'm not just an actor, I'm a storyteller. And I think that takes a long time in, when you have one job on a movie set. Makeup artists, actor, whatever. To graduate from just that to storyteller.

The truth is most of the films that make a lot of money no one remembers, and I'm not interested in making films that no one remembers.

I want, overall, to trust what I know is right. There have been many times when I haven't.

Everybody is an actor in one way or another. We are all performing certain things.

Heath [Ledger] was always somebody who I admired.He was way beyond his years as a human, in a way.

Sometimes love is calm and easy and sometimes it's just plain dirty.