I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.

Fight scenes are really more like dances than they are fights, because you're depending on your partner to do the right move at the right time. Yes, a tough person or somebody who knows what they're doing will look better in a fight scene, but it also has a lot to do with the other person.

I don't consider weed to be any worse than having a beer.

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

I think it helps the writers to sell their books, if they announce my attachment, but it doesn't mean that I'm going to make the movies in the next year, or two, or three.

When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.

Adapting a book is essentially a collaboration, whether the author is alive or dead.