You can't control everything that comes to you.

People think because I went to Yale that that implies privilege, and it is a privilege in the sense that it's an incredible opportunity.

A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.

You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with.

I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass.

I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films.

I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.

I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.

It must be good to be in Germany and France, because I have completely forgotten what it is like to be proud of your government.

As we say in the sewer, time and tide wait for no man.

Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige, my friend.

Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition.

At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really.