I think that the idea of boundaries is being challenged everywhere. And I think our fascination with sci-fi is that it is a boundary-less world where….

There's always an intellectual side to the films Ang Lee's doing and to the characters, and there's such a deep knowledge when you've worked with the….

Often times it's really hard for me to articulate why I connect to something..

Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor..

In that way, as an actor in particular, you're powerless. And so in that way as an actor in particular you can't make mistakes..

I want, overall, to trust what I know is right. There have been many times when I haven't..

I'm superstitious a little bit..

A Separation is another film that I think is extraordinary, and one of those things that feels like it's from another planet, much like Terrence Mali….

I love movies that are saying things that people might find odd at times. I don't find them odd at all. They give me comfort..

I have a mentor. I have... guides. I have a lot of guides. Not a lot, but people whose opinions I really respect and who I will turn to..

It's daunting trying to do any service as an American to such a beautiful, fluid speech pattern that you [British] all have. We are just barbarians i….

What made me most courageous was that I realized I had to try to let go of that stereotype I had in my mind, that bit of homophobia, and try for a se….

I have an overactive brain, and as a result of that, I can really get in my own mind. So I like to try and exercise it to the point of exhaustion..

I like the idea of the adventurer's spirit. I think that is very much what a man searches for, in a certain way..

I've decided as an actor the only, the power I have really is in the performance. It's the only real place I get to sort of communicate..

I had not spent a ton of time around animals as a kid..

Sometimes what I actually love to do is go to a farm and get fresh milk or watch a pig get slaughtered..

I think my family love each other so much and expect so much from each other, and I think we expect a type of honesty in the work that we all do..

In a perfect world, I would love to do one play for every three movies..

There's no shame in somebody who doesn't necessarily do that job knowing a little bit more in that instance than you might know about your own job, y….

Chris Cooper once told me to never have any regrets. After Chris said that to me, I walk into every scene thinking, 'exhaust every possibility.' Once….