Much of what you do as an actor - it's who's around you, what's the environment, where do you fit into this thing. That's really work that's impossible to do on your own, at least for me. I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.

To a certain extent in Hollywood you're a product, and your product is whatever sells the most, and whatever sells the most is whatever the public likes to see you do - if anything.

There will be people who hate everything you do. And some people will really love it. But that's not really different from the people who really hate it.

Of course it's trivial, but then most things are.

Chicago my favourite American city. I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable.

I don't want a trillion-dollar empire to run.

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.