You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.

I suppose a good director is like a teacher. I think that someone like David Cronenberg was very much like a teacher, because there's an openness, but a certain set of rules of behavior, and a certain conduct expected. But there's an atmosphere that's relaxed and conducive to exploration, and that is created by someone like Cronenberg.

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

Some actors learn the habit of promoting themselves as a brand - by dressing in a certain way, by going out with a certain person - it gives them what they obviously want, which is to keep a level of fame. I'm not putting it down.

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.