Because of the need to remove all modernism, we stayed in the middle of nowhere all day long, living out of tents. It was cold. It definitely set the scene.

I didn't even go to my prom. I didn't have one date in high school.

There's been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism.

The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at.

I don't use the techniques I learned at NYU much anymore.

I've just done a movie - Albino Alligator - with Viggo Mortensen, who's an actor I idolize. He influenced me in a way that has helped me move toward getting lead parts instead of supporting parts, merely through his presence. So now I tell everyone, as a joke, that I'm entering my Viggo Mortensen phase.

I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.