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

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.

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.

The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.

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.

My family was very supportive of my acting. They didn't really have a choice because I got jobs acting before anyone could really say anything. It paid my way through college and helped my family out.

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.