When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have.

It's nerve-wracking singing in front of people. I think that's why most people get drunk for karaoke.

People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.

If you're in America a lot, it's easy to get into playing American. All of it, the sounds, the energies, all very different. But it's really hard to do the accent. I tend to try and stay in it all day, which is the only way I can manage it.

Well, you wear underwear. That helps.

I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on.

It's sort of a meat market, the whole awards thing, and I don't think you can predict it anymore - who's going to like what you've done, if it's worthy or not. And hopefully, that's not why you make a film, because if you're distracted by that, or only striving for that, you don't do it justice.