I wanted to do serious movies. I had a certain idea of what good acting was. That's since changed, and I love doing comedies now. I don't like a lot of those movies now, but I thought those were movies that I could do real, serious performances in.

Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself.

I'm an actor, I do movies, and I need to find somebody who enjoys that kind of stuff. It's not like, "Oh, I have my work time, and we go on a date, and it better be darn fun and exciting!" I think it should all coalesce a bit more.

If you just read the book, you're taking in the narrative, you're taking in the characters, you're understanding it in a certain way. If you make a movie it's really an act of translation.

My style is casual-chic? Casual-messy?

You say I sucked at the Oscars. I was a genius at the Oscars. That was experimental tuxedo sleep art.

I've decided I can't really control people's perceptions of me. All I can do is decide on what I work on and how hard I work on it.