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.

Hey, I'm a human being also.

If you can mix Hilary Duff and Gary Oldman into the same actor, that's my goal. I know it's strange to think about, but that's the goal.

People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream!

I wasn't cocky, just confident; I went to an all black school, a white kid.

I have a hard time with free time.

It's really easy to fall for someone on-set, but in the end you know, it's a representative and it's not really them.