There was a period of time in Los Angeles when I wondered if I was just going to lose everything.

There's a small percentage of people who can act. There's a small percentage who get to do this for a living. There's a swath of the population that are able to keep a story in their head and fight all the battles against self-consciousness and the surreal unnaturalness of acting in a movie. The technical aspects you can learn fairly quickly.

The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.

We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?

But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's by way of injustice, sometimes it's by way of fate. There's an infinite number of ways to examine it.

As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good.

The desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.