Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.

I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.

I felt it [Shakespeare's Coriolanus] is sort of an examination of our dysfunction as a nationalistic, tribal entities. I think the world is rocking and cracking open in weird and worrying places. And I think Coriolanus, the play, reflected that.

I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.

I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.

What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.

I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something.