I was always led to believe you should take care of yourself, trust in your abilities and you're the author of your own destiny.

The only way you can influence your fate is to put your soul into your performance and hope it registers with the audience.

I remember in the Carpenter version, you got acquainted with the characters and really knew them. It was a real character piece. Each actor was serviced in the movie, and we tried to do that in this movie as well. I like the fact that there was a European, first-time director. I'd known of him because I'm from Europe. I knew him as a commercial director and thought one of his commercials was great. I thought it was an interesting take on such a big-budget cult classic.

Personally, I love Toronto.

I think always as an actor. I go in knowing how I'm going to play it. That's about it.

As an actor, you really want to resonate with your audience. I played a character on Oz and people still approach me in the streets today.

Certainly, I look for different characters 'cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don't like to get typecast. I made a concerted effort, last year and this year, to get a range of characters, just to show people the range that I have, and for them to be able to see the artistry beyond the color.