I think that movies can help guide us through those experiences [the problems that are happening in our daily lives, the stresses between countries, the economy and global warming]. I think all art tries to grapple with, redefine, come to terms with, express what's happening now when it's working. You can be entertained, but you can also be stimulated to think about things.

When you have 400 people watching you making a movie, it doesn't go where you want it to go. It's a lot of pressure.

I'm not a trained actor. I'm someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own.

How do you rebel in a family of rebels?

The only way the devil really exists in my opinion... is in interactions with people who don't walk the walk and talk the talk; people who act one way, or talk one way and then do another. Those are the deals with the devil. I don't see the devil as somebody who is a horned, goateed guy with a fork in his hand that's there to continuously stab me and send my soul to hell. I don't see it that way at all.

Celebrity is a word I take great umbrage with. I'm actively anti-celebrity.

Guy Pearce is very precise and clear about understanding the rhythm and the music of a scene.