I want my audience to know me for my work, not because of who I'm dating or what drugs I'm on or what club I went to.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist. You give Terrence Malick a movie like Transformers, and he's f***ed. There's no way for him to exist in that world... Lars Von Trier's dangerous. He scares me. And I'm only going to work now when I'm terrified.

Every actor chooses their story at the beginning.

We did this two-week boot camp before we filmed the movie. I got to know everybody in the group and we became friends. We got really tight throughout those two weeks.

I've never been able to learn from other people's mistakes - I'm not that smart - so I usually learn by trial by fire.

There's never been a parent in my life.