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 could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide.

Acting is never really effortless, at least not for me. It requires a massive amount of work. But, there's definitely an added level of having to just create the whole thing again, every time. It's also a very exciting thing, to do that.

I think when you live your destiny, you allow yourself to get in touch with your inner essence. What's difficult in life is the economic and social requirements that distract us from bringing forth our true passion.

I get invited to literally every single movie premiere that's going on.

So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity

Being at the mercy of the acting profession, in the early days of one's career, is really brutal and feels like you have no control over your life, at all.