I just want to make good films on my own wherever I can.
You think that if you are the best actor, you deserve the most or if you are the biggest star, you deserve the most. That race just isn't important to me.
I am an insomniac.
Not living in L.A. gives me a different perspective. I'm not so caught up in the daily process of self-congratulations that's out there.
I became popular very young. I viewed myself as just a young actor trying to figure out how to do well, and, you know, making mistakes and learning and growing.
When the director has a vision for a piece that I've never heard before, and they can back that up with visuals, and they talk a good game, I get really interested in the world that they're trying to create.
I'm always trying to find something unique or a project that I can do something unique in.
I have a pretty easy life.
My musical tastes go from Zeppelin to Bob Dylan to Kanye West and Lil' Wayne. Anything modern and progressive.
My abilities on the computer are limited pretty much to iTunes and YouTube. I check my email as much as anybody, but I'm more old-fashioned in a certain sense.
I'm not all that demanding, I don't think. My family might think otherwise.
Life isn't what it's like in the movies.
I'm not really a tourist attraction kind of guy.
There are some films that really break the mold, and some films that don't. I've been looking for films that break the mold a bit.
I get bored with the same old film coming out every weekend. It feels like it's the same story all the time, and the same visuals, and the characters' dilemmas are remarkably similar.
I always find that I have to be emotionally on my character's side for it to be convincing.
We all want somebody to come in and save the day and change our lives for the better.
I spent my entire first pay cheque from 'Cracker,' a TV show on ABC, on an Audi because my other car broke down and I needed to get to work.
Running around when I was a kid was a really happy time; a time when getting home for dinner or for sleep were my only responsibilities.
Fame was initially this kind of blunt tool that was thrust into my hands very young.
I'm proud of 'Black Hawk Down' because I think it told a provocative story and it was honest. It could have had more opportunity to tell both sides of the story, but I'm still proud of it.
I look for the character to be something interesting, the script to have a good story and be original, and a director that I admire.
I admire when people take the harder path, not because they are masochistic and want to beat themselves up, but because you actually kind of learn more and I think you grow more.
I'm a lot older than my little brothers and sister, so I think I grew up babysitting them.
People care about my fame, not me. But that's fine. I have my own life.
I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter.
I don't love L.A. I love New York and Minneapolis, so if I have a choice I'll stay in those places.
I like movies about people and movies with characters; that's what I'm drawn to as a person who likes to create these characters within the story, but I like it all, really.
You know, honestly, acting in film is remarkably independent. You're doing your thing and someone else is doing their thing.
Up until the age of 16, I was very focused on sport - I played a lot of football. Then I tore my ACL and had to stop playing.
