I was making choices that were very specific: Make a living, take care of your family, and if you can, find some movies that you can sink your teeth into.

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

No, well, my father's definitely not Christopher Walken.

When I was on that boat, I realized the only way I would feel creatively challenged was if I totally changed everything about my environment and put myself in a storm, in a sense.

What matters is that you enjoy doing something creative. And I'm more and more seeing that as the key. That success and money or any sort of accolades are really not the experience of the journey. It's all about the process of building something.

The Hulk, that was the experience of my life, so far.

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