You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.

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

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.

I think I feel more like you're an actor for hire and you take the jobs you want to take, obviously, and some pay well and some don't pay well at all but you go on a gut feeling and it's all a big adventure.

In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.

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

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