Great acting is being able to create a character. Great character is being able to be yourself.

Pablo Escobar is one of the great stories of all time. It's a bizarre, dark version of success.

The New York Times made you or broke you.

It's the flip side of illegal success. This man [Pablo Escobar ] turned a small-time drug thing into a large industry. An international, successful industry. And he almost took a country, Columbia, he took it almost hostage, took over it. It was incredible.

People can be anonymous when they go on blogs and say crazy things that they would never have the courage to say to your face.

I had to work with Ben Mendelsohn who's one of the great actors of our time. I had a lot of scenes with him and I was thrilled to be on the set with him; I just wanted to see how we were going to play it.

Is there a God? Yeah, but there's not just one God. There's a whole lot of gods, because one God couldn't have possibly made so many mistakes all by Himself. This had to be done by committee.