One of the great things about drama is that it makes you feel like you're not a crackpot, and that there are other people who think and feel the way you do.

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

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

What I went into the acting business for was to have a certain amount of chaos in my life. I don't know what I'm doing next. It's exciting. That's the way I like it.

Violence is a very ugly thing. Violence is often so casual on film, and made to look so cool and so sexy, but violence is a repulsive, repugnant act that human beings inflict on each other. It shouldn't seem to be cool and sexy, ever really.

To be brutally honest, I am a little bit of a Clint Eastwood nerd. Clint Eastwood who was the man who drew me into movies. When everybody else was watching Star Wars, I was watching Fistful of Dollars.

I like television that grabs you by your throat.