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

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.

Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.

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.

In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.

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

America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see.