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

I understand the opposite side of the camera. I have a profound respect for that. I have worked with people who, when you hit that mark, are doing 50 percent of your work for you. So, you know, it's a balance. When you walk into a mark and you're lit a certain way or something's happening so often you don't know what's behind you... And that's what's so strange about being a movie actor.

I hope I'm a spiritual person. I'm trying to be a spiritual person.

As much as I am one for real human interaction, I also want to make a show that's entertaining and that people want to see.

When I walk into a screening, I'm nervous in a different way than I am as an actor. But the response is ultimately I know how I feel about it and that's what matters to me the most.

Masculinity is, nowadays and generationally, confusing. What is honor, what is protection, what is being a man? It's evolving. But I believe having an open heart - and a strong mind to protect that - is the idea.