I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.

I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten into vague trouble with my agents for turning down work that I thought was exploitative.

Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like.

I always feel I can play a role - just give me the time to do the preparation and I'll be it.

The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective.

I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.

I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me.