I just like a good story. I want the story to be good and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.

If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.

I have been really lucky in my career, with the diversity of it. I get to play really complex people.

I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.

Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.

You know one scene I always think about is in 'The Godfather', when Marlon Brando's in the hospital. Al Pacino arrives there and enlists the help of the baker to protect his father. The two of them stand outside and the baker fiddles with a cigarette lighter, but Pacino's hands are rock steady. That's when we sort of realize that he can do this.

I've long been a fan of Chiwetel Ejiofor. I think he's a great actor. He's my kind of guy. He does what I aspire to do.

I'm an ensemble guy, I guess - that comes from the theater. If I ever won some kind of award someday, I imagine I'd try to be very gracious, but in the end, I just want to keep working. I don't see why that, if you just put your mind to it and keep sowing the right seeds, you can't keep doing the things you want to do.

I love a good fight and I think a bad fight can ruin a movie. I really do.

As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, If I was gay, I'd be with him - you know?

I have such a crush on Shirley Manson. I think she's the coolest thing.

The other day, someone called me this generation's Bruce Dern - I'd never thought of that, and frankly, I don't know enough of Bruce Dern's work to comment on it, though he is an incredible actor.

Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!

I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

You'll see a lot more blood in 'Saw' movies or something like that than you will in either of the 'Last House' movies. I kind of think it owes more to 'The Virgin Spring' which is the original source material, the Bergman movie.