You need to be disciplined and you need to try to occupy a zone of acting that is always quite scary because you don't think you're doing anything.

If you're playing Hitler, you don't play Hitler as an asshole. Hitler believed what he was doing was right. Any of those monsters and any serial killer believes in what they're doing. I play it subjectively.

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.

Im not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.

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%.

You need to be disciplined and you need to try to occupy a zone of acting that is always quite scary because you don't think you're doing anything.

One of the things that makes this so topical right now is that I think there are an awful lot of American men - and women, but I'm a man, so that's what I can talk about - who feel the American dream has let them down.