It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.

I was but three when he passed by, but I shall be grateful until the day I die.

I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it.

With a role like Hedda Gabler, which is incredibly complicated, you often feel that you haven't even scratched the surface the first time around, so you relish the opportunity to do it again, particularly with an ensemble of actors and the company we assembled. But when you do that in films you somehow have to make some attempt to uncross people's arms and you have to justify why you're doing it.

You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine.

Inquiry and curiosity is really important in any profession, but definitely in what I do. And in parallel you also need to be confident enough to try things. So it's a tricky thing sometimes to balance those two states.

As an actor I suppose you're constantly observing. I don't sit in restaurants making notes, I don't live my life in order to then feed it into my work.