I'm a big fan of period pieces, and I'm a big fan of the old-time westerns.

The beauty of the unexpected and unknown, and it's certainly very tantalizing for me as an actor. Other actors can't deal with that; they want to know, but then they make choices and decisions with that knowledge because that knowledge gives them forethought, and they can think about how they want to play something that takes away spontaneity of what they could be doing.

I had to work from a young age.

I never like to refer back to anything I've done when I'm working on a character, even if that character has the same occupation.

We all do things at certain points that are contradictory. Some things, it's a smaller contradiction, and other things it's larger.

Many times - especially when I'm playing an historical character - I want to be really on target with how I create that character and really nuanced with who that human being might be. But I don't want to lose the likeness of me or the depth of my own personality. So meditation and my spirituality has helped me to realize that, yes, I want to get out of the way but I also want the ability to hold on to what the audience likes of what they see of me.

I'm interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine.