When actors talk about research, they're just patting themselves on the back.

Whatever character you're playing you have to complete the entire interior infrastructure, whatever it is - but what gets divulged or what people completely understand depends on the script and what you decide to show. But you have to know it.

When you look at some of the most respected actors there are and the crap that they're in... it didn't used to be that way.

I have all this time between projects, and I'm not so sure that's a healthy thing. It's scary, because at 36 I'm woefully unqualified for anything else.

I was making a lot of independent movies before the independent movement.

My method seems to change to everything, especially when you get older. You have more of a resonance to be able to grab to. When you're younger, you have these big boundaries because you don't know how to get you to where you are. When you get older, you have a few tricks that you can pull off.

I dont have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price.