“Doing interviews is very different from working as an actor.”

Depending on what my job requirement is, my techniques change.

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

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

Film is a time capsule.

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.

When one is undone—sprawled across the cold tile of a public bathroom in a pool of one’s own vomit, or shivering in the back of a taxi in a pair of urine-soaked skinny jeans with no money for cab fare and a dead cell phone battery.

Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it.

I have been in control of what Ive been doing, of the career Ive put together.

I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.

Don’t do stuff that freaks him out, like what you’re doing now. Do something that makes him happy.

If you can serve everyone who visits you, you must be doing well in business.

For my 20th birthday in March, I’ll buy myself a present for doing my best. A one way ticket to Tokyo. All I need is my guitar and a pack of cigarettes.

I want to really focus on doing this two things I really would like to focus on science and the excitement of science and to help with science.