I love competition.And I thrive on it. I love being able to win the room over before even walking through the door.

I was actually away in Africa doing 'Generation Kill' while everyone was auditioning for Twilight. They all had, like, five different auditions: I was so lucky that I came back from Africa just in time and the actor who was playing Emmett fell through, lucky for me!

When you do a movie, it's like going on a journey. It's really like the director is the captain of the ship, and that energy, everybody feels.

It is fun, revisiting a role. Usually, as an actor, you do a movie and you put that character up on a shelf, and he's done. That character is now immortalized on film, but you don't get to play him again. In these films [Twilight saga], we got to revisit these characters, and we didn't take that for granted.

It was really fun to bring that scene to life. I can't wait to see it at the premiere with the fans.

I would just love to create a bunch of patents, I have a book of 50 right now.

I've been training with my mixed martial arts guy as much as I can when I'm back in L.A., so if I could do another movie like I did in 'The Killing Game,' with Samuel L. Jackson, that would be awesome.