I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a slightly older school of thought: 'give 'em nothin.' You don't plead guilty.

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

I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a slightly older school of thought: 'give 'em nothin.' You don't plead guilty.

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

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

I think there's a lot of mythos about what's required in acting. The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put forward the idea that they do all of this work because, you know, it's a post-De Niro world, when, largely, in fact, it's almost never true.

From my point of view, things don't have to change to get better. Things are fantastic.