We want to see ourselves reflected in our heroes. Unfortunately most of us don't look like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

My heroes are Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, Ed Harris, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Sean Penn.

I try to leave a light footprint. I'm involved with Global Green, which aims to educate people about sustainable building and the greening of schools. I try to be aware about the consumption of unnecessary things in a consumptive culture.

I still live my life the way that I want to live it, and people are very respectful of my space, but they also want to chat, and I quite like chatting.

I hate to use this as a metaphor, but making movies is kind of like going to war. It's not - but the stamina required and what it takes to tell a story that is this big in scope, you need a general that will bring out the best in you.

Tarantino and Jackson is like Scorsese and DeNiro, and their silent communication.

I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.