The Killing Fields, my character's teachings frame the movie and the argument of his lectures is the challenge of dealing with the painfulness of life in the absence of faith.

We're paid to care. That's what actors get their money for. But the main goal is not for the actors to be frustrated at the end of the show, but for the audience to be throwing their shoes at the television set. That's what we're trying for.

There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.

I think people have some control over what they want; there's a relationship - maybe not automatic - between what you want and get.

Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.

I dont think playing a villain is my greatest talent.