It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts, it's best to turn the brain off and let it become an instinctual thing.

Every role affects an actor a little bit. There's always a little chunk of a character that stays left over in your heart.

If you're a loner and you like to go off and run on your own, do that.

I feel that we live in an age where everyone's trying to reduce, and soundbite, and cut it down to140 characters, and that's not what life is.

We accept women being complete c-nts if they’re doing it for a child.

I say I’m an atheist but I wouldn’t mind being visited by a ghost.

You don't want the white men to be written in a three-dimensional way but the black men, not. I mean, it's just about [how] scripts should always reflect real human beings. So that's what I look for.