I'm not lazy on set. I'm lazy in the rest of my life.

I started acting long before I decided to pursue it. I started acting as an amateur when I was a kid, but I wanted to become a diplomat. It was self-centered and weird, but I had this idea of going out in the world and solving conflicts and making the world a better place.

There is no overacting, only untrue acting.

if a real God were actually so vain as to constantly demand worship, then he would not be worth it.

All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood with not too much contact with other kids. They constructed their own reality and they continue to do it. It's a funny breed, directors.

It's really nice to go down to an extremely low-budget movie, but that is very daring and courageous and try something different, where the roles usually are more complicated.

Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.