Anyone has outside influences. They are the results of the cosmic roll of the dice: this person is born Aragon the Ranger, this person is born a prisoner in North Korea, this person is born Carlos the Dwarf. Some of these things are out of our control, but that doesn't mean that they can't be changed. A character, just like a person in real life, is a summation of her actions and feelings. Our actions and emotions are not performed against nothing, they do not arise from dust, we are in constant friction, and/or flow with our surroundings.

The hair is really a way to push me even farther out of just what people know me for. I don't really know what people know me for.

I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.

You want to be interesting? Be interested.

You don't really prepare for a kissing scene.

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

I wanted to do serious movies. I had a certain idea of what good acting was. That's since changed, and I love doing comedies now. I don't like a lot of those movies now, but I thought those were movies that I could do real, serious performances in.