You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.

You want to know what I want? I'll tell you what I want. I want back what Bobby Fischer took with him when he disappeared.

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

I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.

I don't do anything that would ever come across as advice or suggestion, but it's just part of a debate. Like, "I would like to try this," or "Let me do another one with more stillness, let me emphasize that." Rather than "I think you should emphasize this, I think" - you know, I don't impose choices.

What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones who devote their lives to it for the most part insist that it's a science. It's neither. Bobby Fischer got underneath it like no one before and found at its center, art.

I'm so dependent on reacting to the other actors on the set, and to the director. I'm very responsive. I react. And I treasure the energy that reaction gives.