It's much more interesting when you go to different places - make a left turn when nobody expects you to make a left turn, and make a right when nobody expects you to do that.

If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else.

Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.

Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions youd rather not know the answers to.

I think people love it when anybody acts bad; its not particular to me.

I was not a studious kid, and I struggled to find things that would command my attention and engage my ideas and energies.

Sometimes you walk away from playing somebody and you think, "Wow that was far as from my own experience as I can possibly be." And sometimes you walk away thinking, "Wow. There are qualities in that character that I didn't realize I had." And those can be both interesting and uncomfortable.