Romance is important, but to have a friend you can use as a mirror, who can give you an objective response, that's what's really important.

I was trying to figure out where my intellect, if I really have one, where it fit. And so I was searching. I really didn't know who I was or what I really wanted to be, and in that search, like I think you do as an actor, you end up trying to define whatever that is, and I sort of said, "Oh well, searching spiritually in a way is interesting, and Eastern religion seems to be about a search."

I love storytelling, you know, beyond anything. I love a great story beyond a great performance. Storytelling is about what we all do together and how we collaborate together. A performance can be a collaboration in ways, but oftentimes it's one individual thing.

The truth is most of the films that make a lot of money no one remembers, and I'm not interested in making films that no one remembers.

Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.

I think I find tactile things, you know. Just the feeling of blood itself is enough for me. If you, even if it's not real blood. I mean that's enough, like sometimes there are very simple things that are enough.

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