I'm only really interested in taking a part if it's nothing like me.

I think that the process of trying to become somebody else, and obviously the director/actor relationship in trying to do that, is such a weird, undefinable thing.

The image of all the cars leaving pastel-colored people at the same time has never really left me as an anti-ambition for life!

I don't really use the Internet or the newspapers to find out about people.

I believe that if you can discover something of the truth of a person, then you will start to understand, and to understand is to move towards, if not like, then at least an empathy of some kind.

I'm only really interested in taking a part if it's nothing like me.

I don't think the idea of working in Hollywood really exists anymore. I think you work in films, and where the film is shot is where it's shot. The studio system doesn't really exist.