Every role sort of teaches you how to prepare for it.

I am a person who goes out without a purse. I put things in my coat pockets, so I don't have any accessories.

I think breathing is actually the key to a lot of opening up of other parts of yourself that you haven't used, for any job, but particularly in acting.

In the past, 'Avatar' would have won because Oscar voters loved to hand out awards to big productions, like 'Ben-Hur.' Today it's fashionable to give the Oscar to a small movie that nobody saw.

For the camera, particularly, I feel like - I think that, as human faces become older, they become more interesting.

I have always been uncomfortable with a series of movies. I hate that word 'franchise' - it always makes me think of French fries. What I felt each time was that we were going for broke, that this was going to be the last in the series. You can't count on anything.

If you come back from the dead, you don't have the same value system, I think.