I don't need a reason to kill myself-I need a reason not to.

Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible.

Children accept their world as the world. I grew up like kids that I went to school with. Their parents were either shrinks or actors.

For me, something dangerous would be playing thebabe in a huge studio film. That would be terrifying because I'dstink... I want to explore human beings on as deep a level as I can.

Even if the role is very far away from me, to try and make it as nakedly me as possible is an intriguing notion.

I've never done anything that I felt was crossing the line for me. But everybody has to make that decision individually. Like, I've never shot heroin to play a heroin addict. I've never turned a trick to play a prostitute. Whatever. You draw the line where you feel it could be harmful.

I like to investigate all different kinds of people, I guess, and find out what makes them who they are, and try to be honest in the portrayal, and truthful, and find out how to understand that person, how to communicate that person's experience.