I'm reserved. I'm more of an introvert than an extrovert.

Sometimes your mistakes are you biggest virtues. You learn so much from the mistake. Those things that you think are the worst thing that's happening to you can somehow turn around and be the greatest opportunity.

I'm not drawn to stories that are just sort of fluffy. I'm just not, and I've tried to, and as a kid I was never drawn to them. I always chose complicated.

Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.

It's very, very rare to find five roles in one piece where we'd all jump at the chance to play any of them.

Whatever you do in life, don't give up on your own dreams.

That sort of detailed filmmaking is one, hard to do and not have it be pretentious, and two, have it tell the story, which is what you're taught, that cinema is the language of images and you really should be able to make a film with no dialogue and tell a story.