I want to know why I'm alive. I want to understand. It's like exploration; it's like someone being interested in a place and its history, digging into the earth and looking for it, searching - it's a passion.

People think actors have such glamorous lives, but the truth is actors go where nobody wants to go.

I really don't think that the Oscar changed my career much because I didn't want it to.

You have to have the courage to wait, to say no, ... And thats difficult. This job is very uncertain, and its frightening.

For me, real, truthful moments come from a place that I don't know. If somebody was telling me, "You're going to lift your face like this, you're going to do this..." No! I don't want to know. Just let me live it.

There was probably something as a child I wanted to express, something unsaid that I needed to share.

I like travelling and if I have to come to Hollywood to make a movie I will, but otherwise I'd never move there. It's very much an industry town and that doesn't really interest me.