When you're feeling very comfortable with an actor, you are doing nothing.

Everything changes as you get older - your mind, your body, the way you view the world.

I've always been an optimistic guy, to tell you the truth.

I've never liked watching real-life couples play couples onscreen or onstage. It takes me out of the story.

I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them up.

I don't like to over-intellectualize scenes that are working. I tend to think when you do that you may lose it.

I discovered very soon, especially for movies, because I started in theater, that every director has his own universe. You have to be free enough to try to understand what he wants from you. Especially when that director has a tremendous personality. And I'm talking about people like Pedro Almodovar and Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino and Woody Allen. And you have to adapt. If you don't adapt to them, you are off the thing.