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.

I'm reading scripts, desperately wanting to work. I've set a couple of things up for next year

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.

In the early part of your career you are always compared with somebody until you can stand on your own two feet

For me, obviously anything that reduces the amount of acting required and makes the process more of an experience, rather than having to synthesize, is incredibly helpful. There were definitely some hardships and some challenges, but eventually all of those hardships and challenges had a positive effect on the work.

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.

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