Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.

My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.

Snow Cake is a lovely film. Really proud of that. We shot it in 21 days. I thought Sigourney was amazing in it. And very, very accurate. I think there was some element that thought she had pushed it too far. But not at all when you do the amount of homework she had done and spent the amount of time she did with adult autistics. She was right on the money. And I think Marc Evans is a terrific director. He's a sweet, open, honest man and a really good director of actors.

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.