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.

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?

Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing.

I'm in the middle of just trying to impress my nieces, who think I work for the bus company because they saw a picture of me on a bus. I did an independent movie with Mark Pellington (I Melt with You), and then tried to impress my nieces again, by starring opposite Miley Cyrus (in So Undercover). So, basically I'm just trying to get some respect from my family.

One of the great things that you should never do that I learned from John Malkovich is to never judge your characters.