It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in.

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.

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.

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

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

I knew I was happy when I was dancing.