It's hard to find scripts that know what they are from page one to page 115.

I think [kids] enjoy reading, but it's a different world now. There are a lot of competitors for the imaginative attention.

In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive.

You can go through life and actually speak your mind and do it in an articulate fashion and with a really intelligent point of view.

Part of being an actor is letting things come about organically as opposed to forcing them.

If young actors ask me things, I always tell them to get on set and watch how it's done. If you can, watch the people that you like, how they work.

I kind of dread any kind of critical response, just because it's always painful in some way. Even if it's 80 percent good, it's the 20 percent that's bad that you remember - and that's a higher number than I usually get, 80 percent would be amazing.