The film is made in the editing room. The shooting of the film is about shopping, almost. It's like going to get all the ingredients together, and you've got to make sure before you leave the store that you got all the ingredients. And then you take those ingredients and you can make a good cake - or not.

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

In film, you have to let go sometimes.

I'm probably more personal when I'm acting than at any other time. More open, more direct. Because it allows me to be something that I can't always feel comfortable with when I'm living my own life, you know? Because it's make-believe.

Being with a kid always takes you to being a kid somehow, and they really are showing me a childhood I might not have had in some way.

Plays never feel like the right thing to do at the time.

I've worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I've played characters that are unhinged. That's, like, my job.