Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.

When I was a little boy, I rode, but I didn't own horses.

My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of thinking about people and the world that are different from my own, sometimes radically different.

I'm certainly curious about people. As a kid, I moved around a lot. I was raised in a lot of different places, and thanks to working in the movies, I've gotten to keep traveling. I've always been interested in other cultures and languages.

To strive for something better - at least there's a chance.

More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.

The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.