I've gotten pretty good at leaving characters on the set. I go home and try to relax and regroup and be ready for the next day.

I think anything that opens my mind and triggers my imagination I'm reading. I like to read science fiction and imagine the character. Anything that keeps my imagination flowing.

I'm not really interested in playing famous people. I prefer to create characters. And I hope I have an exciting enough life that somebody might make a movie about that one day. I don't want to make movies about other people. I was once approached about playing Salvador Dali, which I thought would've been fun until I found out that he was proud of kicking a blind man across the street. So, I decided, I didn't want to play that guy. So, I think I'll just keep it the way it is.

Shock is still fun. I won't ever shut the door on it.

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

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.