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When the director has a vision for a piece that I've never heard before, and they can back that up with visuals, and they talk a good game, I get really interested in the world that they're trying to create.

My abilities on the computer are limited pretty much to iTunes and YouTube. I check my email as much as anybody, but I'm more old-fashioned in a certain sense.

Everybody was trying to put me in action movies and heroic roles, and I wanted to find more complex things. They just didn't suit my taste, so I thought, 'OK, I have to be brave enough to say no.' And for a while, that hurt me immeasurably in the Hollywood world.

I am an insomniac.

My friends and I make short films. We pretended to rob the Dairy Queen where our friend worked, but someone thought we were real thieves and called the cops! Soon, the cops burst in with guns drawn!

I'm proud of 'Black Hawk Down' because I think it told a provocative story and it was honest. It could have had more opportunity to tell both sides of the story, but I'm still proud of it.

Not living in L.A. gives me a different perspective. I'm not so caught up in the daily process of self-congratulations that's out there.

You know, honestly, acting in film is remarkably independent. You're doing your thing and someone else is doing their thing.

We made 16 episodes of Cracker and I loved doing the show, but unfortunately no one was watching us.

My musical tastes go from Zeppelin to Bob Dylan to Kanye West and Lil' Wayne. Anything modern and progressive.

I'm very 'spur of the moment'. I'm always trying to think of fun things to do to create a memory.

I'm always trying to find something unique or a project that I can do something unique in.

I look for the character to be something interesting, the script to have a good story and be original, and a director that I admire.

I spent my entire first pay cheque from Cracker, a TV show on ABC, on an Audi because my other car broke down and I needed to get to work.

I'm not really a tourist attraction kind of guy.

I'm a lot older than my little brothers and sister, so I think I grew up babysitting them.

I don't think there's a problem with being a teen idol, if that happens to me, I'll be happy to deal with it.

I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter.

I had a good time shooting in New Zealand. I almost bought a home there while I was there, because I loved it so much.

I just want to make good films on my own wherever I can.

I have a pretty easy life.