Energy can't be created or destroyed, and energy flows. It must be in a direction, with some kind of internal, emotive, spiritual direction. It must have some effect somewhere.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.

I've had the opportunity to work with so many great directors. Different styles, as well, like Gus Van Sant. He just does the casting and the milieu and let's you do your thing, quietly. Bertolucci, who can talk to you about your internal world in quite a creative way or just say, 'Well, put your hand over here.'

It's the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.