You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

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.

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

One of the most, in a weird way, encouraging things a director can say to an actor - I know this as an actor - is when you ask them a question, they say, I don't know - 'cause it means there's some space there for you to find out. And it means that there's going to be a process.

I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.

Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.