On "[Total] Recall" also [sets were extraordinary], but this was next-level. They built two or three blocks of midtown Manhattan in 1926 and it was inhabited with 400 extras and 24 Model Ts and a train system and all that kind of nonsense. It was madness. You would walk into shops and they would have the goods from that period, it was just huge.

There was a part of me that felt afraid of people in Hollywood going: '**** Hollywood with their total lack of originality!'.

I'm not going to experience the reality of hardship that sometimes my characters live in. I'm very cautious about that.

It's so technical. It's nothing personal. You're not fighting really, you're missing each other by a half of foot at least, ideally more and you get a few knocks and bruises. But with the kissing, you do kiss someone. Its lips on lips.

Magic is at the core of myths.

I never once regretted doing "True Detective".

I think people are propelled towards violence, and what propels them is much more interesting than the actual act of violence itself.