I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.

It sounds like a cliché, but mother is really one of my closest friends, and so's my dad. He and I weren't very close when I was younger, but now we're best friends.

I feel that movies are gifts that come to you, and there are no accidents in what you end up doing.

I would say Steven Spielberg is family to me. He's a genius. We survived a hurricane together. I ran from half-puppet,half-nothing creatures. It was months of our life as family. It was the wildest film, Jurassic Park, I'd ever worked on that way.

What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?

People have forever been interested in twins.

If my career were a hairstyle, it would be helmet-head.