I Don't Need A Reason To Kill

I Like As Much Time As I Can Get And I'll Do Whatever I Think Is Helpful To Prepare For A Role. Sometimes It's Practical Research, Meaning If I Had To Write Shorthand, I'd Learn How To Write Shorthand. Or If I Have To Know How To Dance A Certain Way, I Would Learn That. And Then There's Just Research Of Talking To People Similar To The Characters I'm Playing. And There's Stuff That I Just Feel Is Inspiring, Whether It Be Music Or A Painting Or A Photograph. I've Used A Lot Of Nan Goldin's Photos In The Past To Inspire Me. I Use Certain Paintings And Pieces Of Music.

I've Never Done Anything That I Felt Was Crossing The Line For Me. But Everybody Has To Make That Decision Individually. Like, I've Never Shot Heroin To Play A Heroin Addict. I've Never Turned A Trick To Play A Prostitute. Whatever. You Draw The Line Where You Feel It Could Be Harmful.

Sometimes The Work Can Get In The Way And You Give A Less-good Performance, And Sometimes It Doesn't And You Can Really Get To The Heart Of Something. And All The Other Stuff Is Just Interesting And Adds Another Layer To Your Performance. It Helps You Find The Reality. Because You're Not Just Playing Yourself, You Know? That Would Be Kind Of Boring.

Acting For Kids Is Like Playing House, You Know? But Growing Up In Hollywood, It Just Made It Seem Possible.

Even When You Think You Can Detach Yourself From The Characters, You Don't. Because You're Spending So Much Time Trying To Realize This Person And Make Them Real That They Do Infect You, In A Way. And You Do Take Them Home And Live With Them, Even If You Think You're Turning The Character Off. But In Order To Pull Off A Role Convincingly, You Wind Up Thinking About That Person All The Time, And It Does Sort Of Creep Into You. And Then There Are Things That You'll Respond To, Or React To In A Very Different Way Than You Would Normally.