I don't think people are interested in my personal life. I've never had a Hollywood life. I've always been a worker.

The director's very important to me, particularly when the director has a recognizable style.

I was doing community theater, and I was always interested in acting, but I was also interested in sports. I was interested in a lot of things. I was a pretty normal guy. I wasn't like a guy who grew up in a dark theater watching movies.

I feel like it's important to be flexible, particularly when I'm coming in late in the game and I'm connective tissue in the story. I'm not at the very center. It's important for me to have a certain kind of flexibility and try to help people do what they need to do.

It's true in the beginning I started playing villains, and I think that's pretty clear, because if you don't conventionally look a certain way and you've got a certain kind of presence when you're young, then what's available to you is character roles, and the best character roles when you're young tend to be villains.

Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That's why you become a junkie for different kinds of situations.

I never act. I simply bring out the real animal that's in me.