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

Whatever labels are being pinned on me have nothing to do with me.

I'm an actor, coming from New York theater.

As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.

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

My problem with interviews, one day I'll think one thing, and the next day I'll think the exact opposite.