“There were the usual types of things that happen, in a production, like logistical bullshit, and this and that and the other. That’s the sort of stuff that happened. But I never felt, in a creative sense, that we were ever veering into a place that I hadn’t signed on for.”

Acting is broad enough a church that you can pick your races, decide which way you want to go at different times.I think that the story and circumstance tends to dictate the most and then what you do with your own approach after that.

One of the things that I found very confronting in my early working life was that people thought I was some sensitive doe-eyed lovelorn boy, because they’d seen me do that a couple of times. What tends to happen is you get a run of similar roles.

You can certainly extend your adolescence. There’s people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.

People don’t know who I am, and that’s not a bad thing at all from my end.

At 15 I had moved out of my parents’ place, and my options were looking pretty narrow. But I had this acting thing and I just wanted to be able to keep going because it was really good. That was all I wanted.

I mean, there’s a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.

I’m very interested in the history of Christianity, and what I can say for sure is that the Catholics and the Jesuits and stuff were very big on teaching and on learning.

As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that’s rampant there.

I’ve spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.

The people I’ve encountered who are really dangerous in my life don’t go around with their fangs drawn – they are dangerous because of the way they interpret what’s going on.

I think now there’s much more of a confessional culture. That’s not my bag. I come from a slightly older school of thought: ‘give ’em nothin.’ You don’t plead guilty.

There’s very little different between the way the government operates in America and the way criminals do.

If you ride like lightning, you’re gonna crash like thunder.

Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It’s kind of all I’ve got.

There are two things: 1) what things one does in the world, and 2) what family one has. There’s the two really tangible things that can stay.

Crewing and being on film sets is kind of like being in the carnival, with carnie folks.

To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.

I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?

That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.

Maybe primitive people have less bullshit to let go of, to give up.

Although I guess being a poet is a different than having to deal with 40 or 50 people to raise a couple million bucks and all that bullshit.

But it feels good to love a thing and not expect anything back. It feels good to not get an argument or any pushiness or any rumors or any bullshit. It’s love without strings. It’s ideal.

People bullshit and fakeness are the main reasons why I like to be alone.

Develop a built-in bullshit detector.