When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.

There's a reason why actors are always dying to work with the Coens. They just set the stage for you to do their best work.

Early on - certainly in acting - you really have to take whatever you can get. So I understand well how difficult it can be to be in this position where people are just not hearing what you're trying to say or are saying. I recognize that.

With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.

I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.

The superhero aesthetic is all about the human form and showing the body, whether they be female or male.

A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.