I love 'Training Day' - that's a great movie.

I didn't know many classes where I could try and relate the thing that I really loved and wanted to do into an intellectual idea.

I had not spent a ton of time around animals as a kid.

Do you know what fear stands for? False Evidence Appearing Real.

As Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor. My sister [Maggie Gyllenhaal] came up to me recently after she saw this movie, Southpaw, the movie I did, and she thought there was this exploration of that type of presentation, and a bit of representation as well, if I could be totally honest, where she was deeply moved.

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.

Chris Cooper once told me to never have any regrets. After Chris said that to me, I walk into every scene thinking, 'exhaust every possibility.' Once you get to a certain place, it's like you just deliver everything you've got. Don't have any regrets. It pops up in my mind over and over and over again.