You can live vicariously through the characters you play.

I've never been driven by box office.

My mother is one of those very unusual, superb human beings-she's innately strong and incredibly smart. She created an environment for me to explore who I was.

In the story, I think as an actor you're just trying to fit into the world.

I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.

Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally.

I'm not a fan of justifying bad behavior or justifying why people are the way they are. I think that's a cop out. I don't have a lot of empathy for that.