I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.

David Fincher is probably the best comprehensive director in terms of being a manger of a process that must drive forward. He has such confident command of cinema language and visual language and script and performance. He knows more about f-stops than any cameraman, he knows more about lighting than any gaffer, he is a wonderful writer, and he can give you a good line reading. Under pressure, he is the kind of guy who you will just dive in with and trust and follow because his vision is so intense.

I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films.

I'm not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more.

It must be good to be in Germany and France, because I have completely forgotten what it is like to be proud of your government.

When you're working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they're pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want.

When people come together too young, they try to become one person. As you get older, you realize that you don't want to become one person because then you lose the person you are.