An actor needs to be not remotely anywhere close to in control, and a filmmaker has to be totally in control.

I would give everything if I could only keep my family.

The idea of directing a film is a strange one for me. I feel anti-mathematical, in a way, in that sense. I don't like when things make sense. I prefer if they don't.

I really loved the idea of playing opposite Marlon Brando and being the crazy one.

I'm a big fan of revenge, I think [Sweeney Todd] it's a story of a man who clearly has obsessions to avenge the horror that happened to him.

I was really intrigued by them, became fascinated by them because they were asking questions that couldn't be answered almost, or were making statements that you couldn't quite understand. Like, 'I'm investigating things that begin with the letter M.' That took me through a whole stratosphere of possibilities, and doing a little research and discovered that the M is mercury.

Me and music. Music was always my first love. It was my first love for sure. And still is a huge part of my life.