I like working with a first time director. I'm more likely to work with a first time director than I am a second time director.

The only way to silence a room that's laughing at you is to sort of take over.

Words are words, but the way an actor says them, the way it's framed, puts you either in the world that looks a lot like ours or one that doesn't seem a lot like ours, one that can be farcical or one that can't.

I mean I don't think it got me interested in acting. I think it might be what makes it so that I can have the idea of the variety of people in the world, different incomes. That helps. When you're going to play someone it's interesting and nice to see experiences that aren't like yours. But there's always the remarkable similarity of all people.

I've always looked at the world as a place where people have done evil things. There are people in the world, for instance, that would describe Americans as evil.

The oceans are pretty unexplored places and the final frontier on our planet; also because they're the source of life. There are dramatic things happening to them at the moment, and they're worth exploring.

I would like to sail across the Atlantic. I would like the experience of being that far away from land.