I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging.

What an actor says is much, much less important than a life, so that's the great use for improvisation; you go, you find the life and then you add the words.

Acting is ephemeral. It's not like making a painting that lasts forever. You're doing something, and the very action which comes and goes, is being demonstrated in front of you. Within that process, you're trying to go against the grain.

I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful

My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me.

I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema.

A lot of writers, because they don't understand actors, feel like, in order to be better at their performance, they have to change the words around a lot.