Non-expectation and acceptance. Because expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations.

I thought I did play one villain, Hitler, [who is] like Lecter in some ways, but he's a mythical figure, anyway.

That's what happens if you don't address the darkness in you. You become repressed and depressed and suicidal.

I'd like to wake up and look like Brad Pitt in the morning, but I don't. I look in the mirror, and I see me.

I am young! Being creative and keeping your brain occupied is very sensible because if you don't you die, slowly.

I wouldn't use the word 'scared' for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable, giant personality such as Hitchcock; he was one of the great geniuses of world cinema. Sheer genius.

Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies.