I do believe female directors, as well as our female writer, can bring out male vulnerability that some men can't because they can't face it.

If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.

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

I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.

I think that Shakespeare had his male side and his female side extremely well developed. And this was a great quality of the Elizabethan, all-around Renaissance man. They were not afraid of their male side and their female side co-existing. This somewhere along the line got lost. And then it got misunderstood.

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

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.