When you know people are really at peace with who they are and what they do, they collaborate and want to help you to improve.

We actors always say how difficult and physically demanding a role was. But give me a break, it's only a movie.

I'm not the kind of actor that gets crazy with [directors'] names, what draws me toward a project is the material itself.

When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.

I do a job and am lucky enough to do a job that I love, but it is a hard one. I'm not saying it is as hard as working in a coal mine, but it is still difficult in a different way. Sometimes you have to go through very strong emotional journeys and then come back to yourself. And that can be difficult to control.

And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?'

An award doesn't necessarily make you a better actor.