I'm superstitious a little bit.

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

In that way, as an actor in particular, you're powerless. And so in that way as an actor in particular you can't make mistakes.

I think you hear a lot of people say 'I support the troops' and all of that, but I really feel deeply that I do.

I have a profound respect for cinematographers. That is my secret sauce. Like they are everything to me.

Everybody is an actor in one way or another. We are all performing certain things.

I could draw ideas. I remember writing a paper for a seminar class. I remember writing a paper about - and this is going to sound really sort of pretentious, but that's where my mind was at the time - how acting and the performing artist can really be like a Bodhisattva, how they can communicate ultimately an idea in a way that can move and shift things. And that was wonderful. I didn't know many classes where I could try and relate the thing that I really loved and wanted to do into an intellectual idea, and that happened to be one of them.