The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes to create a character in whom people suspend disbelief.

I don't necessarily need Hollywood.

I just want to make sure that the thing that I see in it initially, that I think it can be, is not just going to be a horror film and reduced to a jump here and a scream there. But that you can take something away from it.

I feel my fuller-bodied characters are all in the independent films I do, and in the studio productions, I have to work harder to dimensionalize the characters. And that's certainly part of the job description of an actor - that's what you're supposed to do - but you have to work harder at it in the characters that I've encountered in studio films.

I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.

I'm hooked on Polanski's films, his psychological thrillers. I love 'Rosemary's Baby,' I love 'Repulsion.'

Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.