I've played all these extreme guys, but playing an everyman type has its own challenges.

I want to keep everything balanced. That's why it's important not to have too much fanfare.

I had a really fantastic dialect coach that I worked very well with, and I was constantly surprised by the different intonations that the Russian dialect has.

It's very difficult to make comedy work; I think it's a very underrated genre.

I do sometimes play characters that are a bit ambiguous. You've got to be brave about that sort of stuff. I like the sense of people not feeling too secure, not immediately knowing what they have in front of them.

The goal is always just trying to stretch yourself as an actor.

It sounds maybe a little old fashioned, but the parts I want to play and I do play, you don't want to inject too much of your own personality. What you sacrifice then is a slight mystery.