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

The blue collar milieu was something that I really understood and resonated with me and I thought was underrepresented in American cinema.

I have a fear of being boring.

You get those occasional moments when you're absolutely calm, and you've just done something that would have scared you shitless earlier that day, and you've just done it like it was nothing. I find that very relaxing.

If you're doing your job properly, you take the risk of feeling slightly foolish and delve in and bring out the emotions.

Well, it's embarrassing to be a star.

There are movies where actors aren't characters but movie stars, being cool beyond belief throughout the whole movie. That is what it is. And we reveal ourselves when we act, very often without noticing. But if I can manage to do a character without showing anything of myself, then that's the ultimate goal for me. No leakage.