You are always factoring in the economy within the process of creating something, and making decisions that seem both fearless and full of fear.

People, for reasons of kind of security, they tend to move towards people like themselves.

I actually feel that all drama has an element of comedy in it. A great deal of that I learned from writers like Chekhov who called his plays his comedy even when they touch on tragedy.

Utopia is something that I think about in connection to an experience I had when I was a kid.

I love a certain kind of acting style that I would call non-American, which tends to be more detail-oriented and less externalized. There's a kind of naturalism that I often find in non-American actors. I also find that quality in the American actors I work with, but I like to bring in those influences creatively.

For me, an actor is really, first and foremost, a person and an individual, more than they are an actor or a professional.

To come to change, there had to be conflict and pain.