It's tough. It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in restraint.

If you want a film and they don't want you, sometimes you have to go fight for it. Sometimes that ends up just being a meeting really, just sitting down with them and just saying here is my vision for it and here is why I really love it. But for the most part, I think filmmakers gravitate towards people that are excited - as excited as they are about the film and as passionate about it. So sometimes going after it isn't so much a function of auditioning as it is just sitting down with the filmmaker.

I don't get a lot of romantic comedy scripts.

I think you have to let go of this idea that you can be precious about everything, and let it be the abstract mess that it is.

There are so few surprises left in life. We've gotten so addicted to knowing. It's the Google generation. We want the answer to everything right now!

I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now.

Any kind of crisis can be good. It wakes you up.