I don't have a burning desire to act strangely enough. I don't know that if I hadn't been an actor as a young person, I don't know that I ever would have chosen this because it's not really my personality.

I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in.

I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing.

There is no doubt that each of us is born an individual. Why is it then that so many of us die carbon copies?

I did a couple of plays in junior high school, maybe high school, and then I did a play in college.

I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.

I've worked with Neil Jordan, who I really adore. We did The Brave One [2007] together.