I'm at the point now where I know I'm doing something right when a movie gets mixed reviews, because then I'm not in the box. I don't want to make it too easy for people and I don't want to make it too easy for myself. I want to try something unusual.

I wasn't any good at romnace. I was a total nerd. My thing is, I was just too romantic. I was the romantic goofball. I wasn't cynical enough or harsh enough. I cared too much, so I always made a fool out of myself.

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 wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility.

My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.

I like movies where you feel like you're going into another world, and no matter how many times you watch it, you're gonna see something new in that world. That level of detail really inspires me.