I think a healthy connection with the natural world actually makes us more human.

The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.

Never stop. Never stop fighting. Never stop dreaming.

I'm sure favorite moments in movies are things that just happen accidentally when the camera is there. You have to do all the homework to get yourself into the period, the costumes, the style, the voice, the hairdo or whatever it is, but once you've done all that work, you have to kind of let it go and just be there. If you're always thinking about it, it just looks a bit over-thought.

What's my guilty pleasure? The thing is, I never feel guilty about pleasures.

Actors in any capacity, artists of any stripe, are inspired by their curiosity, by their desire to explore all quarters of life, in light and in dark, and reflect what they find in their work. Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

Every villain is a hero in his own mind.