John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun intended, serendipitous.

For so much of my career I've been trying to find little things and make something out of it.

For the record, if you're not a stage actor, climbing onto Broadway and tackling something like David Mamet is not an easy thing to do.

You're trying to figure out a way to go back in time and spend more time with your father. Who wouldn't want to do that?

When you play a character with power and energy, people lock into that and go, "Oh, this must be the guy."

Robert Rodriguez is a genius, and I'm a huge fan of his.

When you do a television show in the States, you get the pilot, and then it's the great unknown. That's the way it is. It's this great leap of faith. It's the Russian roulette of art.