It's always interesting to play a character that obviously has a secret.

I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'

The Holocaust movie is almost a genre in itself these days.

You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid.

I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.

Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.

I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.