I always find that I have to be emotionally on my character's side for it to be convincing.

Life isn't what it's like in the movies.

We all want somebody to come in and save the day and change our lives for the better.

Ever since Poltergeist terrified me when I was 12, I can't watch horror films, I'm a real wuss.

I always find that I have to be emotionally on my character's side for it to be convincing.

It's more interesting when people overcome inner turbulence, but at the same time I do like the innocent. Have you ever read The Idiot? I think Dostoyevsky created a brilliant character there. He doesn't have any self-inflicted wounds. I love that. People don't like him because he's so pure.

I just think of interesting roles to play. I guess that I have matured, I guess growing up and becoming a man, your taste in characters changes and I think I have become more interested in active characters as I have become less contemplative in my personal life. Things have become a little bit more interesting in the doing these days and less interesting in the thinking about the doing.