I just don’t understand how people can get so caught up in having their picture taken.

I love what I do. If I have the opportunity to do what I do with people I admire, it’s 10 times better.

I’m not Josh Brolin or Ryan Gosling. They’re more noir than I.

I enjoy where I am and I don’t have a problem with being Steve Buscemi, Stanley Tucci, Don Cheadle, or Jeffrey Wright. They’re not the lead of every movie they’re in, but every time you see them they’re really good.

If you want to buy a good movie, you’ll buy a good movie. If you don’t want to buy a good movie, you’ll buy a ‘Twilight’ movie.

Most of the time when you see a movie, the best character in the movie is not “the guy,” it’s the guy next to the guy.

Do you want to be an actor, or do you want to be a celebrity? I made that decision when I went to Juilliard. I wanted to be an actor. So, if I get the opportunity to be an actor and do some cool, fun and interesting projects, I’m going to do that.

Playing somebody who’s real, you can bring all kind of nuances and things to him that you get from source material and things like that, but the more popular or known the person is, the more impossible it is. To get it right, that is the goal.

I’m a poet. I’m just a renaissance man in my heart. I can build shelves and I can write poetry.

I’m not Martin Luther King. I can’t be Martin Luther King. The only thing I can do is present what I feel the essence of Martin Luther King is.