It's interesting to help someone find their vocabulary. There would not have been a De Niro without a Scorsese.

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 really tried to make movies I wanted to see. I thought that if I was good enough, somebody would always need me.

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.

I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.

You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office.

I try to stay under the radar.