The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being.

I go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of art, something delivering a series of opinions, and if it's a good work of art, these opinions become so deeply embedded in complexity and richness that I won't even be bothered by the opinions. I'll make my own mind up.'

I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die

I don't think you have to earn your income as an artist to be an artist. But if you are an artist, then art is what you do, whether or not you're paid for doing it; it is what you do, not what you are. I regard artist not as a description of temperament but as a category of profession, of vocation.

My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can’t despise my whole life.

I'm not religious, but I like God and he likes me.

I've never seen a great actor do a major role that didn't cost a lot. They're sacrificial animals of a sort.