As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and how they intertwine.

As time goes on, I will play characters who get older: I don't want to be some Botoxed weirdo.

I love the way L A. leaves you alone. I can go home, read all day, and nobody bugs me.

I can't imagine ever not doing [acting]. I would feel like I would have lost a limb. But I am older now, and sometimes I wonder who I would have been and what about me would have changed had I not had these experiences as a young person

People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

I don't like it when reviews aren't about the movie. When they're about how much money somebody made, or who they're sleeping with, or if they got the job via some connection, or about how Fox is putting X amount of dollars into it.