You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.

There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.

Success.. is all about being able to extend love to people... not in a big, capital letter sense but in the everyday. Little by little, task by task, gesture by gesture, word by word.

Performance is made in the editing room, and I've come to see the truth in that - the idea that they say performances are usually made in the editing room because what you film is the raw material. I think just going through the process of saying, "Which take do we use? Why is that the take we want? I want that take can you edit again, I'm not sure that's the one, I think it's this one." And just because you go through that process, I think somehow it's made me sort of more open about the [actor's] possibilities.

We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.

God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.