This fear of death infused me with the desire to live, and to live harder.

Sometimes it's harder to play good tennis with a bad tennis player - the same way it's hard to be a good actor with a bad actor. It's just an unpleasant experience.

I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite

I love experiencing other people's realities, seeing the world through their eyes for a short period of time.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

I got so used to being unstable that I started to only be comfortable being unstable.

Once everyone else around you starts to become incredibly comfortable - if anything, quite happy with what you are doing - then I start to settling in and trusting all those choices that I've made up to that point.

I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite.

My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think.

What matters is that you enjoy doing something creative. And I'm more and more seeing that as the key. That success and money or any sort of accolades are really not the experience of the journey. It's all about the process of building something.

No, well, my father's definitely not Christopher Walken.

New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South.

I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut.

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power.

When I was on that boat, I realized the only way I would feel creatively challenged was if I totally changed everything about my environment and put myself in a storm, in a sense.

It was a long period of time where I tried to figure out what worked, what didn't work.

I've worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a place of being extremely challenging and dark within their way.