I always thought of running as just dancing forward.

Once you've seen certain things, the moral compunction drives you to act.

Truth in drama is elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive.

You can’t really legislate for the decisions that your heart makes.

It's like playing tennis, you play a different rally with different people. Every actor is different and the chemistry between actors is different.

I feel as though the cardboard box of my own reality has been flattened and blown open. Now I can see the edge of the world.

Some of the greatest actors have turned superheroes into a serious business: Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson in Batman; Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, the first venerable knights of the X-Men, who have now passed the baton to Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy.