People don't want to read subtitles.

I'm not always happy when Hollywood does remakes of films, but that's usually, when they have a very, very, very good film and they take away anything controversial from it and make flatter.

There was a Russian director named Elem Klimov, who did his films during the communist days. They were constantly struggling with the authorities and to be allowed to express themselves. But he did one of the best war movies I've ever seen - it's called 'Come and See.'

When you work with someone you don't quite know, you have to figure the director out and you can come up with ideas that are counter-productive.

The way I look at humanity, I don't think there's good guys or bad guys. We're all potentially bad and potentially good.

Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.

I started acting long before I decided to pursue it. I started acting as an amateur when I was a kid, but I wanted to become a diplomat. It was self-centered and weird, but I had this idea of going out in the world and solving conflicts and making the world a better place.