Why can’t people just say they were moved? Why do they have to say it’s sappy?

A friend – I was living with Matt Damon at the time – went in to audition for To Die For. When he met Gus, he recommended me and my brother. Because the story was...

I have a very bad relationship with mice.

When a performance isn’t working, it’s usually because the actor is trying to do something and they’re not able to express their idea very well. It’s a muddled expression.

The first movie was mostly about George and Julia. This one is mostly about me and Catherine and our love story and our whole history. So it’s a very different movie.

Directors will have a different idea than I have. It will rarely be a perfect match.

I don’t want to be known as someone who is deliberately trying to do things that are not commercial! That is not a good reputation to have when you’re trying to be a working actor.

I once came out of the hotel, and Brad Pitt was in front of me. There were all these fans out there and he walked out. I knew they were going to yell or something,...

I tricked myself into doing this movie.

But when I start to kiss someone – lust is the easiest emotion to generate.

The four movies I can remember seeing as a kid were ‘The Elephant Man,’ ‘The Magnificent Seven,’ ‘The Good, The Bad and The Ugly’ and ‘Mad Max!’ Two of those are westerns. So the western...

People bitch about losing their anonymity and then get insulted when someone doesn’t recognize them from whatever success they’ve had.

For people who have… had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me.

Movies are collaborative, and that’s part of what makes it a great experience. They’re different from a lot of other art forms, but also it makes it seem like when you see the final product,...

I love it: The push and pull, the constant renegotiating of morals, ethics, what to do, how to live… All of us stuck here together trying to sort it all out. It’s fun. It can...

You sleep with people all the time that you hate.

My mom still eats meat. I will encourage her when it’s appropriate to not eat meat. In fact, when we sit down at a table to eat, I don’t hesitate to tell her how gross...

After I left LA… it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning.

I have no pets now.

In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.

Does celebrity interest anyone? It’s definitely not appealing to me. I think anyone who’s had any real exposure to it would probably regret ever having even entertained the idea.

I think that there’s this prejudice, that people that have a college education are more intelligent than people that don’t.

Celebrity never really served me that well; it serves other people well.

Was Andy Warhol a bisexual?

I get offered a lot of the same type of thing… The teenage slasher movies.

I haven’t seen the movie yet – maybe I’m terrible, so I shouldn’t really speak to it.

My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.

I didn’t have to audition. That’s common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think… let the character develop and grow inside me.

Since I left school, I’ve been working on my music career. I would love to be a musician… I wish I could just sit around and play music for myself, but I can’t. I just...

I don’t really care that much about being a matinee idol.

I make out with Christina Ricci… many times. But no real love scenes. I’m dying to.

If you look at the paths of other actors, most people have a curve where you hit it and there’s a time where you make a lot of money and they let you make your...

There were many incidents that influenced me over the course of my life. I mean, how does one first learn about human rights? It’s constantly evolving, and if there was some big-bang-like event, I can’t...

I am in the process of starting a nonprofit organization that gives rescued animals a home in a simulated wild environment and, for those who have been tested on, who are disabled, aggressive, etc., their...

I had a public school education – 3,000 kids when I was there. And there were a lot of teachers who would just sit there. You’d come in and sign your name and the teacher...

I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat’s deck and beaten to death.

Columbia has this contemporary civilization program – western philosophy and political thought. The professor I keep in touch with recommended Anton Mesmer.

The first dog I had was owned by an abusive couple. He was very skittish. He wouldn’t let me hold him. It was explained to me that it was because of how he was treated.

I have had many, many cats. We seem to connect well. I had a snake when I was a boy. It was given to me on my birthday.

In my movies, there has been little to do in the way of animal rights. I have never worked in a movie with animals. No horse-riding, no trained dogs, lions, bears. A few actors, but...

I love getting ready to do a scene, and thinking about it, and talking about it. But the rest of the time, I’m so nervous and obsessed. I’m just tearing my hair out in the...

When I like someone a lot, I get scared that I’ll let them down. My fear of sucking is worst when I feel like someone thinks I’m good.

The thing about Interview is that it’s very flattering. I guess that’s all most magazines are. They take the new, up-and-coming star and make them seem like they possess whatever qualities are popular… regardless of...

I like studio movies; I love big commercial movies.

When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy who got me into acting, he encouraged me to get the lead in a musical. They didn’t have...

I’m tired of playing the brat.

I think David Letterman is a genius. Night after night he is funny and smart. He seems to really enjoy his jokes. They seem connected to who he really is. I like watching him, and...

I believe veganism can be beneficial for the individual and the world, and of course the animal, but belief is like laying in the dark with someone and telling them you love them and hearing...

I love animals, but I love people, and I love people who have all kinds of beliefs.

If I can’t see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?