For me it would be unhealthy to be a method actor; I'm not mentally stable enough for that - I need to separate my two worlds.

It is frustrating when in an interview people say: 'Give us your make-up tips' and 'How do you stay skinny?' I think: 'Do you ask a guy that?

Affairs are loaded with romanticism, morality, mythology, and intense emotions. They're not really about sex, but about pain and fear and the desire to feel alive. They're also about betrayal.

After Hollywood, you know if people are interested in you or in the fact that you've been in a movie. You know who your real friends are.

I felt much better when I started to become myself a bit more and to spend time with people who I genuinely liked as opposed to the people I felt I should be spending time with.

I prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people feel ambivalent about.

My job is to portray real human beings and real human experiences, and if I haven't had a real human experience myself outside of the film industry, how am I going to be able to do that?