I've actually always been interested in following a character more long term, but the only place to really do that as an actor is on a TV series.

With every project, you feel like you're trying to find your place to vent. For any actor, that's typically the feeling that drives you to do it.

Any good relationship that I've had with an actor has always been so emotional and personal. If you don't have that then you're just lying.

I think by default I wanted to be an actor because, on a movie set as a little kid, the only thing that you can do is be an actor. And I was really enthralled by the whole process.

I'm just not made for that kind of live audience where you don't create a fourth wall.

It's very rare that you get to play a character over the course of so many films. Bella meant a lot to me and she will always be such a formative event in my career. I grew up with her and she and I have been on this great journey together. I also see many parallels between her evolution and my own because I lived through so many things along the way while playing Bella and having this connection to so many people involved in making the films over the years. It would be impossible for me to separate my world from Bella's.

It's this weird thing that I always feel like I have to gauge in myself, like, "Don't come on too strong because you won't get your way."