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

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

As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.

I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

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

Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.