Seeing David Mackenzie's work in "Starred Up," I thought that was a wonderful film.

I like to think of myself as a character actor, though there's some redundancy in that...

So I have this word for much of what I do in life: 'plorking.' I'm not playing and I'm not working, I'm plorking.

You don't really have to do the things that your character is doing. But us actors, we use something called sense memory. I've certainly been drunk before, and part of my job is to recall that without getting drunk.

I did [Michael Cimino] first movie, "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot," and I remember I was still in my twenties and very nervous, we're shooting up in Montana, and I'm thinking, "What the hell am I doing here? I don't feel anything like this part.

The Oscar nomination is great. It's a great pat on the back. And I like that.

I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.