I'm a little territorial and defensive.

Respected, I almost want to be revered, that's what I'm chasing.

You can't have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can't have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver and treat it with the same risk appetite that you treat George Soros' pocket money. It's fundamentally ridiculous.

Any time you're a type, your career's over.

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.

To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted.

I think envy motivates a lot of people.