“Film is a time capsule.”

Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.

Doing interviews is very different from working as an actor.

Any experience I had, I’d try to reenact it.

Some people may not appreciate your work and some may be incredibly moved by it.

What guides me is to do work that’s more avant-garde – things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself.

And often times it gets manipulated, sometimes intentionally, by pulling things out of context.

there’s always a process of getting to know one another.

I have an intense curiosity. And it would be a shame if I lose the ability to do that.

So perhaps we always are acting, in a sense. But you meet someone you feel you admire or you “know,” and it’ll be different for that reason.

Fear of the unknown. Fear of terrorism. And it’s unfortunate.

I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I’d try to reenact it.

I did a real boot camp once which with The Thin Red Line which was learning military exercises and this was far less strenuous.

I would imagine it becomes more difficult.

The amazing thing is that I found something so early that I can support myself doing.

It’s interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man… life-changing, but I’m just me within that.

How the governing body of a town, or a nation, controls us through fear.

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer.

To me, acting is the most logical way for people’s neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.

How can you measure acting in inches?

I feel that one of the hardest things in acting is the way you need to switch your emotions.

My mom didn’t ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of child. But obviously, something changed!

A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It’s as simple as that.

Well, my brother started acting before I did.

Every film for every actor is a make-or-break film. I believe every film has the power to break you or make you. So, an actor will treat every film like his last film.