There's things that you don't want to do and they keep haunting you and following you. Bennett Miller directed this project [Capote], who is a friend of mine since I was 16, and Danny Futterman wrote it, and he's also been a friend of mine since I was 16.

I always thought I'd be a New York theater actor, riding my bicycle to rehearsal. That was all I ever wanted.

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.

My image of Jesus is someone who is exciting...Were he alive today, he would be causing havoc!

My mother's a staunch feminist, so I grew up with very strong feminist messages. As a result, I battled her in my teenage years because my image of being a man was a deformed one.

I've been reading a bunch of stuff lately - like Joseph Campbell - that has made me realize that people in our cultural, especially in the liberal community, often go in search of a foe. It's like we always need a hill to climb up or something to push against, or we feel as if we're not working constructively in the world.

When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate.