Each character represents a different color on the big palette of what this ultimate painting is going to look like, who your guy is, and just try to be as honest and simple and real as you can possibly be. The outer trappings are incidental - costumes, period, makeup - all of that is rather insignificant at the end of the day.
Ron PerlmanI expect that everything I do will be not watched or not seen. That way, I'm never disappointed when I become flooded with that reality.
Ron PerlmanI never direct myself, because I don't like working with me. I would punch me in the mouth if I had to take my direction.
Ron PerlmanI like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon. What he hungers for is definitely going to be affected by what he got or didn't get in those years when he was forming his psyche and his values. So I think villains are made.
Ron Perlman