I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.

The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do.

If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.

Acting's difficult for me because I think you have to be passionately involved in what you're doing.

Creating anything is hard.

I know that obviously, that if you want to get the story, if you want to get close to somebody, if you want to find out what is really the truth or what's really interesting, you have to create a trust between these two things, between the journalist and the subject.

There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike.