Actor

I revel in movies where the monsters tower more over the tiny budgets than the characters they threaten.

I revel in movies where the monsters tower more over the tiny budgets than the characters they threaten.

When a kid says 'I'm in astrophysics at school because of your character' that's amazing to me.

Bad guys are always fun. It's one of the reasons why I love McKay so much.

'Cube' was the first big science fiction film I was a part of. It was a fantastic directorial debut by one of my oldest friends Vincenzo Natali and it remains one of my most painful and uncomfortable roles. It's also one of my favorites.

The reality is almost everything I do I cringe about later.

I've always spoken very quickly, and when I get nervous, I talk even faster.

Actually, I have discovered that while I am totally in love with my child (who is naturally perfect), I still don't like other people's children!

I think what Stargate has going for it is a sense of humor about their science fiction.

The nature of filmmaking is that there are so many people involved in it, so many fingers in the pie, that part of the talent of a director is to try and get your personality through in the movie.

What I love about the 'State of Syn' concept is that, while it's exploring science fiction, it's also trying to explore the future of film and television and the Internet, just in the nature of how they put it together and promote it and add apps and all that kind of stuff.

You had to do some club after school and it was either the sports or the intellectuals. And right smack in the middle was the acting thing for all the outcasts, which I fell into pretty easily.

If I was Leo DiCaprio or someone similarly gifted and successful I wouldn't be writing. I'd be too busy acting in all the best scripts in town to try and write them!

'Pin' was a creepy little movie that I starred in back when I was cool and thin and had so much hair I didn't know what color to dye it.

I used to be a pretentious little jerk, running around saying 'I'm going to be an awktor.'

I used to spill things on my t-shirts, leaving oily dark spots down the front that I would try to hide with loose-fitting dress shirts. Nowadays all I have to do is tell everyone my son did it. I skirt the 'slob' moniker and instead look like a dedicated father who doesn't even have time to change.

I sort of went 'Oh, great. I'm getting these great roles and I love doing them, but I'm going to be Anthony Perkins for the rest of my life.'

I suck as a driver. I believe all cars should be piloted and driven by machines.

Art, location, money - I say as long as you've got one of them, you're fine.

All my life I have apparently been tying my shoelaces wrong, there is a much more mathematically beautiful way of doing it, that I was shown by Bill Nye - with Neil deGrasse Tyson looking on.