One of the things that I found very confronting in my early working life was that people thought I was some sensitive doe-eyed lovelorn boy, because they'd seen me do that a couple of times. What tends to happen is you get a run of similar roles.

There were the usual types of things that happen, in a production, like logistical bullshit, and this and that and the other. That's the sort of stuff that happened. But I never felt, in a creative sense, that we were ever veering into a place that I hadn't signed on for.

You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.

I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.

One of the things that I found very confronting in my early working life was that people thought I was some sensitive doe-eyed lovelorn boy, because they'd seen me do that a couple of times. What tends to happen is you get a run of similar roles.

I think that story wins out over acting and that the thing as a whole is more important than the performances therein.

If you ride like lightning, you're gonna crash like thunder.