Figure out what you love to do, then figure out how to get paid to do it.

I don't put a great deal of stock in art trophies.

I come from the theater, where I got into acting because I love transforming. I love nothing more than to be unrecognizable.

I've split my life between a few different disciplines.

One of the most poignant pieces of recent science fiction for me was the portrayal of the adults in the Pixar film WALL-E. I feel like we're on the cusp of becoming fat babies in floating chairs being fed everything in shake form, and I feel like I am as prone to laziness as anybody.

Once you have a PhD, every meeting you go to becomes a doctor's appointment.

I've had to learn and discipline myself that I'm much happier and much less depressed if I give myself a project. It's just that simple.