I prefer playing characters that are going through turmoil. Most movie characters are just in service to the story.

It's really hard to copy another actor and be successful. In fact, that's usually the reason people are not good, because they're copying something they've seen, but, for some reason with their face and their body, it doesn't work.

I don't attribute an actor's great success to their own individual performance when it's something as collaborative as a movie.

First rule of magic? Always be the smartest guy in the room.

I write all the time because I'm lonely. When you're acting, you're working every day all day. But then you have long amounts of time off.

A lot of times the character's experience is not in accordance with the tone of the movie and it's not really my job to account for the tone of the movie. That's the director's job.

Acting is kind of difficult to intellectualize - it's a far more visceral experience. It's really hard to be able to think about and then employ these kind of esoteric notions of this person's backstory and try to weave it in somehow. It's just kind of impossible.