I generally enjoy the rehearsal process because that's where you can share your ideas, get your thoughts and feelings out and see whether or not they're going to land, whether or not people are going to agree with them, particularly the director. So you can sort out in that process any elements that need to be sorted out before you're on the set, and of course that saves time and it also makes everyone more comfortable working together.

I've gotten pretty good at leaving characters on the set. I go home and try to relax and regroup and be ready for the next day.

I believe that everybody has the right to believe what they want to believe and to knock somebody's faith and religion is foolish, whatever it may be - Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism.

I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence.

I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs.

I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters. They're the reason I got into movies.

I'm not afraid to play ugly - look at 'Adaptation.' I looked like a turd that a cat had coughed up.