You don't have to underestimate your audience anymore. They'd actually like to laugh a little bit. So, the character came to me and once it's got its grips in you, there's nowhere to go.

Once you get on the ship, everything is fine. Once you get on land, everything is not so fine.

I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.

The weirdest thing in the world is to see some guy who is just super earnest.

Barrie and the wonderful characters he created, Lewis Carroll, even French literature, like Baudelaire or over in the States, Poe, you open those books, you open The Flowers of Evil and begin to read. If it were written today, you'd be absolutely stupefied by the work. It's this incredible period where the work is timeless, ageless. So yeah, I just love all those guys. It's my deep passion in those great 19th century writers.

Ugliness is better than beauty. It lasts longer and in the end, gravity will get us all.

I think, for me as an actor, if you get to a place where you're satisfied, you're happy with it, then you're dead. It's over. You're not hungry anymore. You won't try things anymore.