Film acting is one of the only industries where you're criticized for working hard. In any other industry, it's considered a quality and something to behold.

I don't find the same things funny that many other people seem to find funny. I don't really respond to sex jokes and things like that, and some of my friends look at me and go, "Come on, Nic, that was my best joke. Why aren't you laughing?" I go, "I really don't know why I'm not laughing. I'm sort of out of sync with it." So I'd have to find something that was really about weird human behavior for me to laugh.

For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver.

I do like characters that have flaws, some sort of pathos to them that they are trying to sort out.

I've really had good luck working with younger actors. Every younger actor that I have worked with has always been really on top of their game and fascinating to watch.

I like the idea of being involved in pictures that can entertain the entire family and can stimulate youngsters into looking at picture books. There's nothing wrong with that.

My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.