I guess for me the greatest injustice is to see people robbed of that interiority and process of association.

That's a true actor's nightmare: "Improvise in British sign language. Go."

You know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don't know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it's deserving.

I just really committed to trying to never repeat myself. I'd seen actors do that on films, and I was, like, "I wanna try that once!" Ultimately, I'm much more in the school of getting one or two versions that feel right, as opposed to going all over the map. But it's fun to exercise that once in awhile.

A self-help book can't really address a problem unless it's individualized. It's not going to talk about a globalized problem.

When you do well in a movie that's seen as really great, you're revitalized for six weeks.

Historically, there would always be people among the general population who had family members, friends, cousins who'd done time or who'd been in prison.