I was brought up, and my sister too, with two people who were always saying, "What you do is really nowhere near as important as the things that are going on in the world, and if your work needs to reflect that, or you want it to, then you need to strive for a certain type of excellence."

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

My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me.

The best thing that I got was rehearsing with my father. It was always about the process of figuring things out, and trying something new, and having another take on something and keeping it alive.

I fooled around with Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams got pregnant.

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

Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts.