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."

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.

I think I've spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build and how to technically put something on top of you.

Sometimes it's harder to play good tennis with a bad tennis player - the same way it's hard to be a good actor with a bad actor. It's just an unpleasant experience.

I think actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none.

It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares

On A Beautiful Mind, there was a wall of math.