The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.

I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.

I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only one sticking around.

Speaking more than one language and living in a multicultural family and environment did not seem like anything but what it was: the world I lived in.

In December of 2002, the late Richard Corliss, a respected movie critic with a long and illustrious career, wrote an embarrassing letter of support for the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan in the guise of a Time magazine review of Peter Jackson's The Two Towers.

People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.

I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.