As a producer, you have an opportunity to see the whole and bring people together.

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

I like that when you create you really do create with a very small group of people, and in that space, before it goes out to all these people, that's what I love.

My experience on 'Jarhead' was life changing.

As a producer, it starts when I talk about privacy and silence. It starts before anybody believes in it. And I think that's, you have to have a real sense of self, and in order to push things through. And so often, what's interesting, is how many people dismiss an idea that eventually everybody [gloms] onto. So to me it's, that's what I mean by hard.

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 don't have a "I want to play this or that," I just don't have that. I've never been like that.