Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.

It’s a shame...you just don’t see young people doing anything outside these days.

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.

Talk about putting your money where your mouth is. It's not right. Someone's gotta say it. They said it. I applaud them.

We all want to be 20 again and have that first sense of love.

I've always felt it's the directors purview to say what; it's the actor's purview to say how. It's not good for an actor to have the big picture in mind - it bollocks you up. An actor's purview is the tiny little... We measure our performance in seconds.

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