I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.

All you have is the writer's imagination. You have a very limited time to take this imaginary person and bring the details of their life, as you perceive them, to life. You attempt to do to that as fully and as vibrantly as you can. It's depressing to read how much you've failed. And it's not even particularly instructive or necessary to read how you succeeded because in the end don't you have to judge that?

It's tough to figure out how do we compete in Europe and North America, when obviously a living wage for us is very different than a living wage in Indonesia.

Much of what you do as an actor - it's who's around you, what's the environment, where do you fit into this thing. That's really work that's impossible to do on your own, at least for me. I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.

There are many, many benefits to being known for whatever it is you do. To deny that would be sort of asinine and vulgar.

I've always been an avid reader. Everyone in my family read a lot. Considering we were from a little town, we were pretty literate.

There will be people who hate everything you do. And some people will really love it. But that's not really different from the people who really hate it.