After I left Yale, we were all doing these mad plays off - off Broadway. And I got back to that feeling I had from college, of everyone making up in front of one cracked mirror, which is what I loved - the scrappy theater idea. I think off-off Broadway healed me, made me an actor again, and I was in so many different crazy shows.

I am a person who goes out without a purse. I put things in my coat pockets, so I don't have any accessories.

I was discouraged at drama school, along with most of my peers.

As an actor, the second and last ones were interesting for me. Because those parts had the most change in playing someone who was both light and dark, sort of Jekyl and Hyde.

I love working quickly. I don't like to do thousands of takes, and I don't want to do thousands of set ups.

One of the reasons I did this, because I wasn't really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can see it. She's 9 and it's really a good film for all ages.

I had always done theater in extracurricular ways. I'd never been a drama major.