An accent has to do with the way your mouth works and the sounds that come out of your head, but somehow it informs everything about you.

Twitter! It's like being stalked by committee!

I mean, you know, while I'm acting on stage I'm ranking quite high, but in a room with Barack Obama I'm probably into negative digits. I never feel very famous.

There's a morality... I think there's a moral compass but whether that comes from religion or just from being a good person, and where one starts and the other begins... I'm a good person, I hope. But I'm never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to be, never as generous as I want to be.

When you're playing a real person there's a balance between playing the person in the script and playing the person as he was in life. You have to be respectful and true to who that person was, but at the same time tell the story in the film.

I always like seeing people transforming themselves, in whatever way that might be, and a different accent is part of that.

I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very appealing and rather heroic in that.