Keep your head down, work hard, and don't ever believe your own hype, because... you just keep working.

People assumed that I would have everything handed to me, but that couldn't be further from the truth. I was on my own just doing the grind.

You understand what good directing is, you can identify it pretty easily.

What people don't understand about making a film is sometimes your experience on the film shapes who you are. You're gone to another country for five months, maybe more, there's training leading up to it... It's a whole life experience that people don't see because they just see the final product wrapped up in a couple hours. You don't see everything that happens around it. I think it's hard to say one movie or one thing; I think they all shape who you are.

I want to be a man's man - not a kid actor or a glitzy pop star but a no-bullshit leading man.

If I'm gonna play a character in a movie or if I want to be the lead of a film, you wanna carry the guy, you wanna get the girl, you wanna save the day or the world.

I remember something Clint Eastwood told me early on. I don't remember how old I was when you told me this, Dad. But you said, "As an actor, I never went back to my trailer. I always hung out on set and learned." That stuck with me.