It's nice when someone knows their lines.

I just love movies.

You can’t control everything that comes to you.

When I think about directing a film, the thing that stops me short is wondering if I’m a natural at it the way I think you, and PTA, and Fincher are born directors. Maybe some people’s talent is in understanding the ways that film communicates, without dialogue, without plot.

If I’m trying to put size on for a role, then I don’t do much running.

You never make all things for all people and can’t always pander to the broadest denominator. I keep an eye toward doing the themes that interest me. Do they move me? Interest me? Make me think? When I run across something that is provocative in an unsettling way, it appeals to me.

No, I’m not a very methodologically pure actor.

The thing I’m absolutely convinced of, no matter how crazy – technological the world is getting, is that people feel more connected through the good works. Entertainment, and the sort of soporific effect it has on people and their stress, is one thing.

When you have a pipe salesman with a business called Macabee Pipes, I’d say you’ve got your tongue planted firmly in your cheek.

Everyone keeps saying the western’s dead, but it’s not.