You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other, the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.
It's important to me that everyone is treated with respect.
I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it.
I always want my options to be open.
You won't find a better young actor than Jaeden Lieberher. I ended up having one of the best times with him, really. Going to work with him every day was a treat.
You're always dealing with emotions as an actor.
The sexiest part of the body is the eyes. That's what I believe.
I'm just constantly trying to renew and give myself new challenges and push myself to uncomfortable places, trying to get better.
I'm always very aware of the physical challenges of work. I train much more than I did when I was in my twenties, and I've done some very physical films, and I always get properly prepared for them and get as fit as I can.
I did it for the money. But its not worth much if you cant face yourself in the mirror. Respect is the ultimate currency.
A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you've got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don't have that hunger.
As far as career goes, make sure you're in it for the right reasons - and make sure that the work itself is the most important thing.
The further you run from your sins, the more exhausted you are when they catch up to you.
I think it's dangerous to get into ideas of planning careers.
I do wear suits all the time.
Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.
It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.
Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.
I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.
I find sometimes that if you do too many takes, it starts to become meaningless to me. It is hard to sustain it for me. I don't want to do too many.
For an actor, it's very important to get a clear idea of what a director wants, and their intention for what they want to get out of a scene and how they want to shoot it. Having that knowledge is really valuable, for an actor. It means you can deliver more.
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.
I think that Phil Kaufman is one of the best directors that I have come across.
The theater's a live thing, and film is, to some extent, a discipline where you're putting everything together and trying to execute something exactly. You do it away from people and then you present it at the end.
When I started in the theater, the joy for me was playing different parts, and I get set alight by different people and different worlds. The biggest joy for me is jumping around and going from that to this to that, never feeling that I'm any one thing - because I'm not, and we as people aren't.
