I would take William H. Macy as a teacher any day of the week. He's incredible. He's got a lot of hard-earned experience.

Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.

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.

Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.

There's a lot of reasons you can think of to say why you act, but I can only say that it just felt good. At the same time, it felt really painful. It's still troubling and stressful to me.

I was nicknamed 'Skeeter' in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield.