If you ignore the murdering and the conniving, Francis Underwood is an effective politician.

Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.

It's not even about being negative. It's just being unsettled, unsatisfied, unfinished.

There are two things that have been happening over the last few decades in my opinion. First, there have been unbelievable, remarkable, pioneering advances in technology and, second, an equal amount of evolution in creativity. These two shifts are meeting at an intersection.

As an actor, youre always nervous as to what a director will do with something.

I have done films where we all thought the director didn't know what he was doing and it is going to be a gobble gobble turkey. And you go and watch it and it is great.

It's much more interesting when you go to different places - make a left turn when nobody expects you to make a left turn, and make a right when nobody expects you to do that.