I'm at a period in my life when I'm figuring out my idea of who I am and what I want and how to hold onto love -- all that big stuff. And I'm starting to realize that it can happen at any age. I know people who are in their 50s who are figuring out what they want and who they are, and I think it's great. It's like you're always approaching life as a beginner.

I walk around thinking job to job, trying to not have regrets.

I'm a very political person, and I make political choices in my movies.

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.

Do I take care of my body and take conditioning seriously? Yes.

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.

It's amazing how the world has changed because, at that time [2005], a lot of actors didn't want to play a gay role.