There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.

I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.

My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.

I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.

I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11.