If I have any particular appeal to women, maybe it’s because I listen more than other guys do and appreciate how they think and feel about things.
Hollywood usually doesn’t have strong woman in films like that, and it’s stupid, so for the most part they’re usually being directed and written by men.
If you’re making a movie about the effects of time, you kind of have to engage time as the main character.
As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn’t sound tough. I thought guys should sound like Marlon Brando. So now I have a phony accent that I can’t shake, so it’s not phony anymore.
I feel like everything has happened naturally.
All my characters are me. I’m not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think ‘I wonder what that feels like.’ Because for me, they’re all me.
I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don’t know if he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is faith.
I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me.
For now, I’m just going to keep doing the work and hope I don’t get fired. If people want to put me up on their walls, I’ll love it.
I am pretty sick with myself! It seemed a pretty good idea at the time. Around the time I turned 30, I started to feel very creative, more creative than I had been before which is good and I like that.
I grew up Mormon. I wasn’t really Mormon, my parents were.
I think we’re very complicated and we’re capable of all kinds of things, and movies don’t reflect that.
I think we just knew that we had a movie when Rachel walked in the room.
I feel there is something nice about not talking. Like you can say more by actually saying less.
I think that you can sort of have your own personal journey and you know, you can just kind of apply that to whatever characters you’re playing.
I know there are only so many characters I’ll be able to play.
You know how sometimes department stores have these things where, if you win, you get 10 minutes to go in and take anything you want from the store? That’s basically what I’m doing. I’m running in and just trying to grab as many characters as possible before they pull the plug on me.
I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I’ve always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor.
I feel it’s important to show that one thing that you do doesn’t define you as a human being. It doesn’t mean there aren’t ramifications or you shouldn’t pay for that but, its not who you are.
If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that’s what you hope.