As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance.

It's a really unique acting opportunity to play two roles who are not only interacting with each other, but vastly different.

Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say.

My feeling is... when you show up to a movie set where there's, like, 50 people standing around and months of preparation gone into it, you want to be as prepared as possible, so you should make a million baguettes. That might not actually help in any explicit way, but it'll make you feel more prepared.

I think there's nothing more wonderful than using fiction to reflect real-world cultural ideas.

I've never worked during the summer. I take summers off.

The movies that are really big, at least in my experience, oftentimes don't have characters that I feel as personally connected to.