I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

You don't want to vilify your ego.

You prep, you prep, you prep. And on the day that you film, you let all of that go. I try to achieve emptiness as much as possible - the Zen thing - to let the deal come out of that nothing.

Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.

A fool and his money are quickly parted.

I like to think of myself as a character actor, though there's some redundancy in that...

I don't think I ever went down that movie star path. I always enjoy taking a 90-degree turn from the last thing I did.