All the choices we make in our life are pointless. There’s no escaping the inevitable.

The minute you realize that your options are unlimited, things just start falling into place all around you.

I have a bit of a rebellious nature.

A lot of people are not meant to be together.

Radical Islam and US exceptionalism are in bed with each other. They're like lovers, methinks.

There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense.

Roy, the guy I play in 'The Grifters,' is a guy who had a very bleak life. His mother had him at 13, and then when she was 17 or 18 and he was 4 or 5, they were trapped in a small Texas town somewhere, and she was ready to do anything to get out.