Popularity Is The Slutty Little Cousin Of

Making Really Great Music, Making Really Great Films, Writing Great Books Is An Antidote To All Of That. And, As People, As Artists, Some Of The Massive Disruption That Technology Is Causing Is So Exciting, The Way That People Can Share Creativity Now.

Any Questions I Had About Whether A Redneck From Oklahoma Could Become A Brown Classical Philosophy Professor Ended When I Met Tim [blake Nelson].

All People Are Paradoxical. No One Is Easily Reducible, So I Like Characters Who Have Contradictory Impulses Or Shades Of Ambiguity. It's Fun, And It's Fun Because It's Hard.

You Know, Independent Films Have Been Institutionalized, Practically. Every Studio Has Got A Boutique Arthouse Label. There's Like, 18 Different Independent Film-financing Funds. In Fact, I Think The Children Of Those Films Are Getting Made. A More Interesting Question Is Whether Those Films Are Going To Get Seen And Appreciated.

As An Actor, I Don't Have Any Politics. As An Actor, I'm Driven More By An Authentic - I Would Say An Obsessive-compulsive-disorder Level-fixation On Mimicry, Tonality Of Voice, To Literally Imitate Something Until I Can Just Disappear Into It.