I had never met an actress or an actor when I thought that I might like to be one. I had never been around people in show business or from the theater or from movies or anything. And I say that as an encouragement, I don't know some people who want to be doing what I'm doing or be involved in film. You don't have to be from it to get interested and get involved. I certainly wasn't.

We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of "how do we find our authentic selves?" And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?

We want to be seen for who we really are, and each person has his own complex story and reasons for doing what they do.

In a film, if you can capture what's going on underneath, you can begin to make a connection between the character and the people watching it.

We're not all evil or all good, and we all make mistakes to one degree or another.

As an actor, you want to be open to the unexpected. So in order to be open to that, you do have to get out of your discursive mind just like in any creative process, this isn't just about acting. So you have to learn a little bit how to work with your own mind.

Some people say talent is energy and that's a very interesting way of thinking about it. In other words, people with talent have a lot of energy.