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.

I had friends of mine tell me they had a baby, and I didn't even know they were pregnant.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think

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

New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South

I tried something when my career was really struggling: reaching out to people, to filmmakers I wanted to work with. I genuinely wrote a letter to Clint Eastwood saying, "Hey man, I'm a fan and I would be an extra in your movie."