You don't go - oh this is a motion capture role, I'm going to employ this method of acting. We don't have anything to hide behind when we're doing this.

Be magnificent. Life’s short. Get out there. You can do it. Everyone can do it. Everyone.

I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

That's what I think is the biggest challenge, is just being still and learning how to just be present in that stillness and not over do it, not over act.

When you come out of the other end of a long process, working with a character [you realize] this character has really shaped my ideas.

I believe that when people experience an event as a community it can transcend and change people's lives.

Performance capture is a tool that young actors will need in the next 10, 20 years. It's on the increase, as you say. It's not going away.

Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.

I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years.

I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now.

A flower does not diminish in beauty, no matter how many weeds envy it.

What must be remembered in any case is that secret complicity that joins the logical and the everyday to the tragic.

I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety.

Zombies are the blue-collar monsters

Two things are necessary for success in life; one is a sense of purpose and the other, a touch of madness.

How can a living man be a person who has nothing to lose? This is very absurd! Even a dead man has something to lose: His coffin!

By being able to play different styles I can get more work. I also learn so much from each of those experiences. It keeps everything from getting stale.

Loafing" is easy, but "leisure" is difficult.

Some intentionally injure others through mocking, sarcasm with no intent to help. Others are trying to help.

I will cause a boy who drives a plow to know more of the scriptures than the pope.