The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.

When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.

You can only do so much theatre.

Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I think his intention is always to protect his daughter.

My mother couldn't have been happier when I said I was moving to New York.

I grew up in the theater, and you can't improvise Shakespeare and Ibsen. You have to speak the language. But obviously, in a contemporary film, there's often room for improvisation and spontaneous things that happen. As long as I know what I'm trying to achieve in the scene, and when something comes up, I know that the response is genuine, I'm comfortable. That's really how I build everything.

And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical.