We all have our insecurity and that's normal. And you have to learn to accept that about being an artistic person or aspiring to be an artistic person is that fears and insecurity, they don't go away.

I've always been pretty levelheaded. In show business you need to have a certain internal stability.

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.

And if there's anything movies can do in a way that I just love, and I love as an audience is, "Show me something I don't know about. Show me something I haven't seen."

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

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.