For me, what makes life enjoyable is having a shared culture and shared references.

I enjoy doing things that involve research because it's part of what I enjoy about acting.

It's funny the more technological advanced everything gets, the more like acting in your bedroom when you're a kid it is.

I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you. More mythical reference points actually help, and you realize that's what myths are for. It's for human beings to process their experience in extremis.

Americans are much more open than people in Britain.

Stories have always been the things that entertain me and make me feel happy and sad and move me and give me the experience of being able to live many lives in one lifetime. It's the best thing about being alive.

As a general thing, I've always been drawn to characters who appear to be one thing on the surface, but are actually something else underneath.