I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power.

It was a long period of time where I tried to figure out what worked, what didn't work.

Movies and life become a little more symmetrical when you start asking for and looking for connections.

Once everyone else around you starts to become incredibly comfortable - if anything, quite happy with what you are doing - then I start to settling in and trusting all those choices that I've made up to that point

I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut

I'll look at the script and I'll try to find as many books, movies, and pieces of music that I think are going to feed each scene or the character as a whole

I had a Southern accent but I had broken it so hard.