I love movies that are saying things that people might find odd at times. I don't find them odd at all. They give me comfort.

Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you. If it's what you want to do and it's within yourself, then keep going and try to do it for the rest of your life.

I think you hear a lot of people say 'I support the troops' and all of that, but I really feel deeply that I do.

People say to me, well "What's the character you really want to play?" And I go, I don't know.

Sometimes what I actually love to do is go to a farm and get fresh milk or watch a pig get slaughtered.

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.

I wasn't really quite sure where Heath Ledger came from, and I think that's the feeling most people got when they were around him and why he was so extraordinary.