I didn't like the distance between my family and myself that I was experiencing from having to work all the time.

Studio movies are looking more like independent movies and independent movies are looking more like studio movies, and I think cinema is better now because of it.

I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent.

Also, stick around. Don't lose your heart, just keep going, keep at it.

I don't want to feel like I'm stuck doing one-stock performances.

Artists have always been the front line; that's part of our responsibility. But a lot of the big actors come out, they get slammed, and then they retreat.

It really is the relationship you have with your self that presents the key to the “kingdom”, so to speak... Fighting is good, but not when it is fighting yourself. Changing the world is good but first one has to start inside and concurrently make that place right. The strife and the ugliness in the world is the outward manifestation of this troubled relationship we have within on a whole.