Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.

A couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you're very far way from the person you thought you were.

I used to be able to sit in a chair and for four hours straight in a very focused meditative way be in my own world without ay interruption. And now it's like your brain is getting so trained to check your phone, and there is like a dopamine release every time you get a text whether it's a good or a bad one. I'm really worried about what it's doing to our minds.

Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.

If you came from the future and you arrived here, what would you be like? Would your immune system be depressed from that travel? Would you be well? Would you be ill? Would you be affected by micro-organisms of the time period and be hiding out in a basement? How would it all work, practically?

The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If Im afraid of it, then I want to do it.

I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.