Q: Do you look for likeable characters or do you make them likeable?

DQ: No, I don't even really see Ben as all that likeable. I wouldn't call him likeable myself. I think he was maybe redeemable but I also don't think actors can really get away from their persona too much sometimes. I think whenever you watch an actor, they're really there because of who they are. I don't think - - no actor really loses himself in a role. It's still their persona. Even John Malkovich. He's an incredible actor but it's still like you love to see him get pissed.

Q: Did you model any coaches?

DQ: I was really trying to go for Ben and capture his spirit. He was a real person and I feel a responsibility to try to capture his spirit. I mean, I don't look like him at all. I've also been around enough football games and been around enough coaches to kind of know the routine. Alan Graff was also really great because he directed all the football sequences. He also did Any Given Sunday and Friday Night Lights. He was really great.

Q: Can you describe the religion of football in Texas?

DQ: Yeah, by religion I guess it's because they're obsessed by it. It's really kind of a passage of - - a rite of manhood or a rite of passage. You have to go out for the football team, which I tried to do and got laughed off the field. I was a late bloomer. That's really how I wound up in the drama room after that. They are crazy about it.

Q: How are the twins doing? About a year old?

DQ: Yeah, they're 10 ½ months and doing really well. They're completely healthy and happy and we're really grateful about that. Could've been not good at all. We were very lucky. The same incident killed another set of twins in Corpus Christi just in June. I don't know if you remember that.

Q: How are things going with the case?

DQ: Well, we have our ongoing case with Baxter, against Baxter as far as the labeling and packaging goes but it was a chain of events, of human error. Baxter was the first link in that chain. What we're trying to facilitate and it's coming anyway, just trying to facilitate is the introduction of bedside bar coding and electronic record keeping in hospitals. Medical errors kill 100,000 people a year in this country and their procedures and their record keeping is still stuck back in the 1920s where the doctors who write prescriptions, who can read a doctor's writing? There's a lot of soundalike, lookalike names on medicines. It's just human error. Nurses get overworked. In aviation they have auto pilot and color radar and a lot of other instrumentation that is a backup for pilots. It's really brought the incidents of plane crashes way down. Same thing ought to happen in the medical industry I think.

Q: Charles mentioned your "life is too short" attitude towards acting. Is that in life too?

DQ: I just enjoy it. I really enjoy working now. I enjoy acting now more than I did when I first started. I really do because I think I'm not trying to be anything. I don't feel the pressure to be anything or like make it or get that next movie or whatever is going to put me into some other league. I just enjoy doing it for the same reason when I was back in college in plays. I just love it. I love finding out what makes other people tick.

Q: What did you enjoy most about this film?

DQ: I really love the story and bringing the story, helping to bring the story to the screen. I think Gary Fleder really elevated what was already a really great script. Being part of that world was great. It was an interesting character for me to play.

Q: How much action is General Hawk in in GI Joe?

DQ: A lot. General Hawk? General Hawk is not really in all that much action in this one. If this is successful, I'm sure there'll be sequels, I've been told. I've been told I should get ready.

Q: Did you sign your life away?

DQ: Yeah, sure. I completely sold out. Completely sold out on that.

Q: How do you play a doll?

DQ: What do I draw on? Like I said, General Patton and Hugh Heffner. The girls are all dressed up like Barbarella. It was wild, wild action scenes. They bring down the Eiffel Tower I think. They completely destroy Paris like an oops type of thing.

Q: Did you go to Europe?

DQ: No, I did all my stuff in Downey, California. I was there in GI Joe Central.

Q: How do you take that seriously?

DQ: Exactly. Of course. Look what we've been doing.

Q: What other two movies did you shoot after this?

DQ: I just finished Legion.

Q: What’s Pandorum?

DQ: Pandorum is a science fiction film. It's a science fiction movie that's pretty interesting.

Q: What’s it about?

DQ: I don't know if I can tell you. It takes place about 200 years in the future and Earth is dying. We're on our way to like another Eden. Humanity moving off the earth. 'Cause global warming, man. It's The Day After Tomorrow to Pandorum.