To be able to shut off your emotions drastically, I think that the only way you can do that is if you have some of sociopathic qualities.

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 very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there's a lot of events that have to happen in order for things to end up the way they are.

I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.

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.

If it was never new and it never gets old, then it's a folk song

I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year.