I'm a version of the same person.

I can be incredibly angry with someone, I can be incredibly critical, but... I went through a period where I was reading a lot of memoirs of guards in holocausts and serial killers. I like to understand why people do bad things.

There was an age in which it was clear to me that my parents weren't perfect, but then there was an age at which I had empathy for that. And that was through therapy, probably. You have to rebuild and you also have to grow in your understanding of whatever it is your parents are facing, and that takes a major, profound shift of perspective from being a child.

When working on and writing a film, I'm often more of a sponge than other times, aware of what's going on around me.

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

I try not to articulate ideas in the film once I've arrived on the plot and the characters. I believe that if I focus my attention with enough compassion and heart on those things, then other things will be revealed, and that's from the education that I've had from the novel.

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