What's so fascinating about people is what they don't show. People are masters at it; usually actors show too much.

I think there's something thrilling about going into a movie house and seeing everything on such a huge screen. I think we're in a culture now that is confronted with various sizes of screens, the biggest movie houses and then the smallest iPods.

It puts you in a kind of a strange situation where everybody is looking at every little thing you do.

People think that the ocean is big enough to sustain anything we throw at it - its hard to get into your head that it's actually finite.

I think every pet lover has an appreciation for nature - I've never met an animal lover who didn't have some kind of connection to the natural world.

We have to be vulnerable as actors, but we have to protect ourselves.

With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools.