My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.

I think, in the initial process of discovering a character and the analytical process - and this is what I did take from Buddhism - initially I think there has to be an analytical, intellectual approach. And that has to be abandoned by the time you're playing the game.

When you have the opportunity to choose projects, inevitably you start being moved towards the things that you're moved by, right? And that changes over time, as we change, right?

Peter Sarsgaard, he's an extraordinary actor, and I would say that Peter has really brought into my life and my sister's life a sense of presence as an actor that I never really understood or knew about until I met him. They've been together for a very long time, and he introduced me to the idea of the presentation.

They're the darkest people I know, comedians.

People say to me, well "What's the character you really want to play?" And I go, I don't know.

I like that when you create you really do create with a very small group of people, and in that space, before it goes out to all these people, that's what I love.