I've never tried to reach a certain demographic of an audience or try to say: OK, now I'm going to do this type of film to transition myself into more adult roles. Or a romantic hero. Or whatever it may be.

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

I've got this reputation for shooting one take which is a wonderful reputation to have but it's hard to live up to.

Doing what we do [filming], you have to be your own critic and judge and adjudicate as to what you do and how it turned out.

One of my passions is to meet people and then imitate them. I love doing that.

If you're gonna let the character be the story, you better set a tone that allows the actors to do the best work they can do.

You see, I think negative emotions are always trumped by positive emotions.