I guess I'm growing up in the film world.

I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me.

I'm living with two guys. I'm living with a slob and a guy who sleeps all day.

I wouldn't want to direct. I see how much work it is.

Yeah, I love doing ensemble pieces. You get to meet so many new people and make new friends.

I don't think I want to play a teenager anymore.

I guess I'm growing up in the film world.

The next movie I do is not going to be in school.

I can't do talk shows, I don't do them, just because I get really nervous and fidgeting and shaky.

For instance, when I go to the premiere on Tuesday I probably won't watch the film at all - I'll be watching the audience just to see their reaction to different moments, what I'm doing right and what I'm doing wrong, stuff like that.

I took six months off, finished high school, and hung out with friends.

I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials.

I would definitely stay in the business, be behind the camera maybe.

I look for things that are going to challenge me as an actor.

Id like to do an action film or a dark sort of independent piece.

I've never liked the press part of it (no offense), but it comes with the job.

I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and I'd have like one teacher, which was really bad.

Final Destination was the closest thing I've done to a teen movie but it certainly had an edge to it.

You know, I've never shot a gun in a movie.

I want do some kind of action movie, car chases and explosions.

When the movie's on, I usually watch more of the audience.

I've always been interesting in the lighting aspect and always listened to what they were saying.

I would like to do something a little bit more edgy.

For every 10 good things, there's always some jerk that wants to say something bad.

I'm trying to go through the whole process of high school to college to work.

My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.

I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.

'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it.

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.

I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.

It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need to explain more about a character.

To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.

I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.

I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.

I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They're really fun, I want to make more of them definitely.

One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.

The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.

If he didn't fall in love he would have never come back near the end of the film. Because, what man is going to dishonor himself so that he comes back in front of the man that took a woman away from him... and warns her to save her life?

Robert Altman's Nashville is my all-time favorite film because it covers all the bases - it's original, moving, and has something to say, but also funny and incredibly entertaining.

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist.

I have a movie coming out called Spun, which will be at the Toronto Film Fest.

Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth.

And when you see it the first time you put the film together, the roughest cut, is when you want to go home and open up your veins and get in a warm tub and just go away. And then it gradually, maybe, works its way back, somewhere toward that spot you were at before.

A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.

My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them!

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.

I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.