I didn't grow up really wanting to be an actor. I don't remember ever not being an actor.

I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books.

In a weird way, that's the beauty of being an actor. You get to live out things that you're afraid of, and you get to say, 'Well, maybe I can get to the end of it and survive it intact and I can be the hero of my own story.' It's kind of a way of exorcising fear.

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

I like to be in a different place when I make a movie so that I can't really focus on anything else, and that is your world.

I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it's a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus and the obsession to come to terms with my own spiritual crisis.

But now I really don't want to work unless I really, really care about a project.