I'm Not A Very Methodologically Pure Actor.

I've Always Thought Of Acting As More Of An Exercise In Empathy, Which Is Not To Be Confused With Sympathy. You're Trying To Get Inside A Certain Emotional Reality Or Motivational Reality And Try To Figure Out What That's About So You Can Represent It.

Popularity Is The Slutty Little Cousin Of Prestige, My Friend.

To Me, Achieving Tone, Achieving Consistency, Is Exactly The Job Of A Director. It Is To Be The Fusing, The Nexus Of A Whole Bunch Of People Contributing To The Complex Life Of A Movie. There Are Actors, There's A Cinematographer, There're Costume People, Set People, There Are All These Things, And You Somehow Have To Be The Person In The Middle Of It Who Is Making It All Synchronize Into The Same Magic Bubble.

I Almost Forgot What It's Like To Be Proud Of My Government.

I've Always Liked The Idea Of Taking Old Dramatic Ideas And Devices And Making Them Feel Relevant Or Contemporary Or Whatever.