In that way, as an actor in particular, you're powerless. And so in that way as an actor in particular you can't make mistakes.

I'm open to whatever people want to call me.

To me Donnie Darko was about adolescence. And about how, as soon as you start to grow up and you sort of move out into the world, you realize everything is so trippy. That anything can be anything.

Being a star doesn't last. That's not what life should be about. It's a complete illusion that really has nothing to do with you. For me, finding out about life is the most important thing.

The amount of preparation I saw from someone like [David] Fincher, and how aware he is of everybody else's job on the set, and how much respect he has for every aspect of the film, and every aspect of the frame - that's the type of actor I am now; it's not the type of actor I was then. But without understanding his process, and then coming to learn it later on, I would never be the actor I am now.

My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.

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