I become a bit of a blank page in public. And that's precisely why I like acting.

I like being responsible for myself

I never want to turn something down because I'm afraid to do it, because of some idea of image or whatever. That was never anything I set out to do. In fact, the opposite, I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make.

For me, I think the harder the shoot, the more I feel like I'm enjoying myself.

It's very easy to leave when things go wrong, but to stick around and to basically give life to a town because of everything that it gave you generation after generation after generation, that to me is what defines a true American.

You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not.

Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark.