I just love the process of working with other actors. It's like jamming with a musician, except it takes a little more effort to get to that place as an actor, because you have the cameras and lights and everything. But I love jamming with these people.

The situation in the film is like me going out to Venice Beach and talking to a homeless guy on the boardwalk, and 13 years later he's the president.

I'm not making any plans. I'm just going to let the universe surprise me.

My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.

I love these movies where it's just about the film. You don't have my face on the poster. It's all about the movie. I like that.

Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.

Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life, all this shame and fear and pain, and turned them into great works of art. He was a complex, brilliant person who was just wired too tight.