I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.

Good roles are hard to come by, and whether they're a few lines or a lead, you snap 'em up when they come along

My philosophy about the whole thing is that awards are like gifts: it's lovely to receive them, and it is very bad form to covet them.

It's generally more fun playing the villain

They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really true.

No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs.

I don't just look at things as an actor. I've also written several films, so I look at it as a storyteller and I know if something worked and should have been in there for the benefit of the story and the benefit of the character.