If the inspiration is genuine and it's coming from the right place, that's what I like and want to be a part of.

I just like to do work that inspires me, and I don't pay any attention to whether it's a high- or low-budget movie.

The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

I think any time you set out to make something, anybody is going to be confronted by those voices in their head that say "You don't need to do this. Someone else can do this better. You should probably just quit right now."

The truth is, an actor's performance is the result of work by a lot more people than just the actor. When you see that character portrayed up on screen, there is the work certainly of the actor, but there's the work of the editor, there's the work of what the camera was doing. What the music was doing, all of the above.

There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.

Everyone has the attitude that movies aren't just disposable entertainment - they can really mean something. I love that, because that's the way I feel about films.