I'm not a big dreamer. I never have been. I remember fragments of my dream, and I try to take a traditional sort of approach to researching this project and doing preparation for it.

School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.

There is no element of genius without some form of madness.

This created world really helped me as an actor. It heightened everything, which made it more dangerous, more interesting and more liberating.

Dark green is my favorite color. It's the color of nature and the color of money and the color of moss!

If a film is good, and I'm sort of able to sit there and absorb myself within that world. And get lost. That is a pretty powerful tool. And there's not many paintings out there, that make me want to stare at it for hours at a time, and wonder where I am!

Mozambique is having an economic resurgence but still four out of 10 people there have HIV or AIDS...There's astounding conditions but what I was left with...was the power of the human spirit there and the fact these people have been through so much and they were still dancing in the streets