I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.
I appear to be drawn to iconic characters and what they reflect back to our cultures.
A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak.
If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.
I find that after a screening, people really want to come and tell you what they feel.
There's something about being cerebral, intellectual, and yet emotionally repressed [in being villain]. If you think someone's doing this [bad] stuff and they're in complete control, that's more scary than if they're out of control.