When it's working, what acting is really about is getting into the essence of a moment in a creative, joyous way - through whatever frees you up.

If someone puts up $100 million on a movie, they're gonna be concerned about whether they'll get it back. So they're not gonna make a movie about three girls, you know?

I tried to do the commercial thing. But I don't want to keep shoving Twinkies down everyone's throat. People are hungry for something of more substance.

I see my job as an actor to be as good a channel as I can be. Acting is a gift, and I have respect for it.

You can rest a lot in an hour or have a whole day and not do it properly. One way I get a quality recharge is to connect with nature. To experience something that's bigger than me.

I felt that the biological clock was some myth to keep me from doing what I wanted to do. And so I rebelled against it in the '90s. I thought it was a backlasher, some sort of faulty data. But it's real. I'm glad I woke up before my body was just like 'uh-uh.

When it's working, what acting is really about is getting into the essence of a moment in a creative, joyous way - through whatever frees you up.