My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.

I thought he was an interesting central figure, central character, one who is definitely not your typical central character figure in a film, who's easy to like. He's not easy to like. It forces you to involve yourself with what's going on.

I don't know if I ever really considered making a connection with the audience.

Let an audience be able to find it themselves without spoonfeeding it.

I do believe that we have the opportunity to continue - I repeat myself over and over again with this - to redefine and reinvent ourselves and as long as we do that, then I think we've got some pretty good odds in our favor, because we're not always presenting the same thing.

The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.

All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way.