If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place.

Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant...does it get any better than this?

I got married because I fell in love with this woman. I had a baby with her because we wanted to have children. But that's not because of some philosophical ideal at all, no.

What matters most with any regimen, whether it's to lose weight or stop drinking or smoking, is your willingness to seek help and your desire to say 'no more.

The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn not to be afraid of discussion and conflict.