I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.

There is always something about the villains that I'm able to play, quote unquote, that isn't villainous.

My line-learning is very special. I like to learn the dialogue of the whole film before I arrive.

As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.

I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies.

If it's a really well written villain, he probably has more layers than the archetypal good person. So that would be very attractive to an actor. No one chooses to be a villain; it's usually a reaction to something else.

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.