What you try to do, as an actor, is just make it work somehow.

An actor's job is to do their job. It's great if it's successful and it's fantastic when it's a huge hit, but at the same time, you're there to do a job and make sure you do it well.

What you try to do, as an actor, is just make it work somehow.

Until I did my work and I did my utmost best, I feel like I don't have a right to feel excited.

You look for the roles where, when you read it, you're just like, "Yes, I know that. I know that feeling. I know what it means to feel like that. I know this person." When you have a soulful connection to a part, that's a dream come true.

For a relative newcomer, it's obviously a dream to work with such a talented actress as Anna Paquin, who won an Oscar at 10, or something ridiculous like that. That's a dream.

If anything, it was a very egotistical thing because I wanted to move people. I wanted to tell a story and move people.