I'm interested in generating work for myself. I have trouble with this waiting-for-the-phone-to-ring lifestyle, especially after drama school, which was so creatively fulfilling.

With success comes more responsibility, a larger size of existence, which is uncomfortable.

You win an Oscar, and immediately people ask how you feel. So you don't have time to actually feel anything because you have to generate a response. And then some of the feelings you have are so intimate and visceral, words don't really do them justice.

What I've learned from myself is that I don't have to be anybody else. Myself is good enough.

Steve McQueen is a genius. And I think that word is overused, but I think with Steve it's rightly used. He's a genius.

As human beings, what makes us able to empathize with people is a connection that is not necessarily understood mentally.

I like to wear things, I don't like things to wear me.