Ryan Phillippe

Look at music: I've always loved hiphop and rap, and now there's this whole progressive movement, with De La Soul and Mos Def, Common. It's some of the best stuff around.

To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal.

At 27, it's great to get to a place where I'm not an actor for hire anymore.

In all animation, if it's done quickly, you'll know it. And if you're very slow and careful with it, it's going to look a little more beautiful. It's just compressing time into seconds.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.