I always had an actor within me.

It's interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man... life-changing, but I'm just me within that. It's been very helpful for my career, but I'm trying to stay on the path I was on before.

I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me in line. Really in line.

What guides me is to do work that's more avant-garde - things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself.