I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

I've worked with Neil Jordan, who I really adore. We did The Brave One [2007] together.

Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.

I look back at my career when I was younger and can connect what I was going through at the time with the characters I was playing. I see the similarities in them reflecting on my life.

But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

I don't think there is anything good about fame. 'Tables in restaurants.' People say that but, then again, why don't you just call the day before? Or go eat somewhere else?