I like movies! No, I like theater too. And paintings are great, and all of that! But to me, the great sort of artistic medium I think, of our time, is film. I really feel that. I mean to me, there's nothing else out there, where I can sort of suspend disbelief for two hours.

I've never known a situation in my career where a terrible script turned into a movie that was out of this world or was a success.

I cheated a lot, because I just couldn't sit and do homework. I usually sat next to someone extremely smart.

This created world really helped me as an actor. It heightened everything, which made it more dangerous, more interesting and more liberating.

It's very, very rare in this business [moviemaking] where a script lands on your lap ready to go.

I'm never really conscious of saying, "I'm going to take on a specific role to combat a certain image in the public eye." I think that's pretty manipulative and transparent to the public anyway.

You have to enjoy life in the process. It may sound corny, but it's true. At the end of the day, we can't always achieve everything that we dream of but you do have to enjoy life in the process.