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.

The performances had to be live. When you play it back, you can see if the hands aren't really doing the right thing, and then the whole magic falls apart.

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

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.