In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator.

Give me a sword fight any day.

I’m very pleased with myself. I did The Collector immediately after Billy Budd, because I thought, Well, I’ll let everybody know: This is my range.

I’m an introspective person. I’m not an extrovert.

He’s Soderbergh, we’re working for him. It doesn’t matter what he’s doing; we’ll see it at the premiere.

One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because we don’t understand science; they can’t talk to us because they don’t understand...

In the case of Elektra I really wasn’t sure I could pull it off. There were so many intellectual leaps. My character, Stick, is blind, but he can see better than most people. So I...

I don’t know what my limitations are until I reach them. I look for the challenge.

When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you’re not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges.

I’m not an instinctive actor.

I have always had this energy, which I think of as overdrive.

If God had intended us to fly he would have given us railways.

It wasn’t until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn’t have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy.

I’d like to be a passion fruit. Not because it’s passionate, but because someone I know is mad about them and has got me onto them.

With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience… hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini!