I don't think that necessarily I was encouraged by the nuns and the priest to consider alternate possibilities to the universe.

One of the great things about film is that, typically anything that's introduced in the first five minutes, the audiences will by into.

If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's contribution is a rather slender band.

Every actor has their own method, so I'm not suggesting what works for me will work for everybody else.

In the summer of 2009, I was at the Shakespeare lab at the public theater in New York.

It's because you have no power. You give them all the material and the cinematographer, the director, the editor, boy what they can choose... You better hope they like you because they can slice and dice and make you look like a damn fool when your face and body are up there on a 30-foot screen.

If you're going to do a guest spot on television, they need bodies on those procedural TV shows. You've got to keep working, and that's where a lot of the work is.