I would like to be George Clooney - diplomatic. I just don't have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity.

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.

Sometimes I feel I'm living a meaningless life, and I get frightened.

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 my mind, talent doesn't really exist. Talent is like a card player's luck. It is motivation, ambition, and luck. It's just a drive to be the best. I think acting is a con game.

The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time.

Have you ever noticed how most critics disagree with the public? That should tell you a lot about critics.