And the very fact of how you speak somehow influences who you are. The way you move, the way you think, it seeps into your being, and it's quite hard to really break that down entirely.

Some people live more in 20 years than others do in 80. It's not the time that matters, it's the person.

I think it would be self-indulgent to go, "Oh, I'm going to make this character different by giving him a quirk of some kind." I don't think that serves the story, particularly. But even very similar scenes with a different set of actors, a different set of circumstances, it starts to evolve as a different character.

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.

And the very fact of how you speak somehow influences who you are. The way you move, the way you think, it seeps into your being, and it's quite hard to really break that down entirely.

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.

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.