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

I think that I have sold out sometimes.

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.

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.

We make a contract within ourselves as actors or directors or writers about how much of ourselves we let into projects. You can actually figure out before you work on something how much blood you will have to let emotionally.

When you get to play with the big boys, your game improves drastically.

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.