I find it inspiring and I always think when I'm working on something new, whether it's a new kind of character or a new kind of story or new kind of camera, it gets my creative wheels spinning.

There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver.

I've always had a soft spot for comic books. I learned to read from them. The words in them were so interesting.

I do like characters that have flaws, some sort of pathos to them that they are trying to sort out.

I guess it would fall into the stalker category more or less. I was being stalked by a mime - silent but maybe deadly. Somehow, this mime would appear on the set of 'Bringing Out the Dead' and start doing strange things. I have no idea how it got past security. Finally, the producers took some action and I haven't seen the mime since. But it was definitely unsettling.

Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios.