No, I Was An Unknown When I

You Can't Buy Back Your Respect; You Can't Buy Back Your Career. You Only Get One, So I Don't Want To Mess That Up.

I Didn't Jump Onto Anyone Else's Coattail And Ride Their Wave.

I Think There's A Form Of Honesty, Because I Used To Be Very Honest With The Press, And Then It Backfired On Me, And I Understood It.

There's No Room For Being A Visionary In The Studio System. It Literally Cannot Exist. You Give Terrence Malick A Movie Like Transformers, And He's F***ed. There's No Way For Him To Exist In That World... Lars Von Trier's Dangerous. He Scares Me. And I'm Only Going To Work Now When I'm Terrified.

There Is No Grand Strategy. My Sensibilities Push Me In A Certain Direction. Other Actors Have Different Sensibilities. That's All. I Think It Really Is That Simple. There's No Grand Strategy. There Are So Many Variables That I Have No Control Over. I Sign On To Movies I Want To Watch, As A Fan.