You can choose your family sometimes. You can choose people, it could be a teacher, it could be a professor, it could be someone you work with that actually genuinely cares about you and wants you to succeed.

Generally my instinct is to not do biographical movies. I want to build characters and not be locked into playing a part in history.

One of the first signs of being depressed is that you lose interest in things. That's why I think it is important to stay passionate.

I came out of independent film, that's my roots. I used my independent film as a laboratory, and used what I could discover in that laboratory.

I find children inspiring. The way they look at the world. The magical world they live in, to me, is inspiring.

I use technology for communication, but I don't have a Blackberry or an iPhone. I use an outdated cell phone, but I'm fine with it.

Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small.