I learned from my Adventist upbringing that the biggest sins were sexual.

Whether you do a play in front of 100 people or a movie that one billion people see, you're still affecting people.

Everything we do affects other people.

At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.

If 'Black Balloon' had come out before 'The Mummy,' casting agents wouldn't have been able to see me for the first time in 'The Mummy.' But now that 'The Mummy' has come out before 'The Black Balloon,' that's a very good combination.

I'm one of the guys who wants to watch the film completely done, with special effects, sound and music, because I tend to get disappointed if I watch it not fully done.

I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.