It's So Hard For Every Young Person,

I Was Being Taken Around By A Press Agent At The Venice Film Festival At Age 18. Was It Fun? Sure. But It Was A Dangerous Path To Be Walking On As Far As Having A Substantive Life. Because The Casualty Rate At The Venice Film Festival For 18-year-olds? High.

In All Of Our Society, But Especially In Hollywood, There Is An Obsession With Perfection That Can Lead To Self-loathing And Neurosis And All That Kind Of Stuff.

I Did One Sci-fi Movie. I Did 'gattaca.' I Liked 'gattaca' Because That Was Always The Kind Of Science Fiction I Really Dug, The Non-action Oriented Sci-fi.

In Fact, I Think My Life Is Always Going To Be Difficult, Because I Am Trying To Do Something... "original" Is A Big Word. It's Kind Of Pathetic, But I Have To Love What I'm Doing.

Alejandro Amenabar Is A Different Kind Of Director Than I Lot Of The Directors I've Asked For. He Really Asks You To Enter His Dream As Opposed To, You Know, A Guy Like Sidney Lumet Or Something Is Going To Ask You To Create A Character Almost Like A Documentary. He Wants You To Make The People Really Real And He's Going To Capture It Like A Documentarian.