Every scene has two people who want two different things, so there's conflict in every scene. You've got to duke it out, and you've got to get the other person to change his or her mind and do it your way.

Anyway, I try to be a good guy. I try to tell the truth, but I'm not religious.

Making a mistake means overshooting a scene, shooting too many takes, for instance. Long after you've got it, you just keep shooting.

I have a tendency to say 'yes' to a script or no to a script. Not 'yes' based on a rewrite.

All modesty aside, I think I'm good at reading scripts. The way I read a script is as fast as I can, all in one sitting, and I don't read many of the stage directions. I only read enough stage directions to let me know where I am, because they're always so verbose and mostly horseshit. So I only read the dialogue, which allows me to see the movie in my mind's eye in real time.

Nothing else counts except what you want.

So many actors spend so much energy trying to remember the lines. It's so foolish. Guys are the worst.