How do I feel about being a star now? Well I still try to live life and enjoy what I am doing.

I was a shy, quiet kid. I was happiest playing by myself with my toys, rather than hanging around people.

I want to do films I can relate to emotionally.

I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to direct a play, The Laughter Epidemic, it felt like a vacation.

I think games are starting to branch out. It's not just guys sitting at their computer stations. Games are so fun, that everybody gets into them a little bit.

I have brought a PS2 on set with me before. But games can be really addicting, and that's dangerous. So I tend to keep it fairly limited on a certain level.

I had such a good time working with John Woo and John Travolta, and it was so professional. I want to work with people who are real professionals.

I was always such an incredible fan of John Woo, I just wanted to do this film with him.

Hopefully, that people could see a progression in my performances because that's how it's always felt to me.

Good judgement comes from experience. Sometimes, experience comes from bad judgement.

Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don't want to allow my image to rule the choices that I make.

Well, obviously, as soon as I'd finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain weight and really prepare emotionally, mentally and physically for the role.

I don't think of myself as offbeat and weird. As a kid, I saw myself as the type of guy who would run into a burning building to save the baby.

The way I see it, if you're going to make an action movie, you've got to make one with John Woo.