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

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

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

Every day is intense and alive, whether it's travel, work, even down time, which there is so little of.

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."

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

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