As a performer, I'm constantly fascinated with the idea of being able to know what anybody else's experience is, and how misleading all informatives, like appearance, can be.

The whole thing of working in collaboration with filmmakers is the thing that I love the most, and possibly the thing I do the best.

In my house, a hot dog is a dog that's really hot.

How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity?

I am the only living person in the English speaking world who didn't have the Narnia books as a child.

Well you know, the comic strip [Doctor Strange]... yeah, was an Asian man, in fact, a very ancient Tibetan man living on the top of a mountain. The film script that I was given wasn't an Asian man, so I wasn't asked to play an Asian man - I was asked to play an ancient Celtic person.

I believe that all great art holds the power to dissolve things: time, distance, difference, injustice, alienation, despair. I believe that all great art holds the power to mend things: join, comfort, inspire hope in fellowship, reconcile us to our selves. Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.