You start out with big dreams and I mean, big dreams artistically. You want to work with the greatest living directors, make a great movie. I wanted to make a great love story, I wanted to make a great epic and then you realize that the truth of it is that it's so hard to make a great film. It's hard to get a great role. Those big expectations change to realism pretty quickly. But what's never changed is my desire to work with great directors and to find projects that push me out of my comfort zone and keep me alive. I still don't think I've done my best work

Cinema is a director's medium, so you're saying, "What do you want?" Being an actor is about adapting - physically and emotionally. If that means you have to look great for it and they can make you look great, then thank you. And if you have to have everything washed away, then I'm willing to do that too.

The power of work, and the power of creativity can be your salvation.

I want to be in places I've never been before.

Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I'm very medical. I come from a medical family.

If you enter the dark side of life, and come through it, you emerge with more strength and passion.

I think each role takes a little from you and circles around you for the rest of your life. I don't think you ever abandon any of them.