I try to live my life in such a way that I don't have any regrets. That's probably why I work so much. I don't want to feel I missed something important.

To act well isn't an easy thing.

To have that concentration to act well is like lugging things up staircases in your brain. I think that’s a thing people don’t understand. It is that exhausting. If you’re doing it well, if you’re concentrating the way you need to, if your will and your concentration and emotional and imagination and emotional life are all in tune, concentrated and working together in that role, that is just like lugging weights upstairs with your head... And I don’t think that should get any easier.

If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft.

Study, find all the good teachers and study with them, get involved in acting to act, not to be famous or for the money. Do plays. It's not worth it if you are just in it for the money. You have to love it.

When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate.

The film is made in the editing room.