I like being at that place where you can either fall or stand. That's where I think you really have a shot at doing something truthful.

I've always believed that the greatest actors are the ones that have the voices that are imitable.

I'm at the point now where I know I'm doing something right when a movie gets mixed reviews, because then I'm not in the box. I don't want to make it too easy for people and I don't want to make it too easy for myself. I want to try something unusual.

I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles.

I have eclectic tastes in the movies I want to do.

When you start a movie, it's not like other kinds of work that you have when you know your boss for years or colleagues for years. You're meeting everyone, mostly, for the first time. You have to get comfortable with those people so you can perform, because the first thing that is going to shut you down is any kind of anxiety.

I always wanted to find a way to apply my acting in a big mad monster movie where I was transforming into this scary entity.