I like doing things that are very wildly different. I find that the meat and vegetables of being an actor is doing things that are completely different, all the time.

I like television that grabs you by your throat.

One of the things that I discovered in my research is that some serial killers build an ultimate reality around themselves that they believe in, 100%.

Acting gives me a chance to be people I will never be, in real life. I like changing who I am.

I often think that drama helps people feel less lonely about things.

Actors tend to get better with age. You start cutting away the useless stuff and achieving a point of effortlessness and simplicity, which is all you want to do, with any art at all.

One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.