I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think.

I try to do as many stunts as they'll let me do. I think it's important for an audience to feel that the actor's really doing it.

The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If you do that, you're at the center of the universe - if you can find characters who are more ambiguous and can raise more questions than answers.

I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic, they survive by developing a pretty off-kilter sense of humor.

If you're really special, meaning you're doing something unique and original, it could scare people.

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

In the beginning my energy and passion for acting came from an almost punk rock need to express a lot of anger wherever that may have come from. As I got older, it became or is coming more from a place of wanting to use the craft to help others in some way, to hold a mirror up to the situations that we're going through, to actually be more cautious about the way that I use the power of film and to see if there's anything that I can do in the performances that will resonate in the public a similar string that's on people's minds and is on my mind. That way we have that relationship.