By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.

Definitely, there's a lot of trouble you come up against when you're acting and directing, about your performance. Sometimes it's hard to be objective about it. I will tend to get two takes and walk away. I don't belabor it, and it's important to me to have someone who says, "You know what? You should get another one, and maybe you should try it like that".

I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.

How could you ask me to believe in God when there's absolutely no evidence that I can see? I do believe in the beauty and the awe-inspiring mystery of the science that's out there that we haven't discovered yet, that there are scientific explanations for phenomena that we call mystical because we don't know any better.

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 already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.