I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.

Acting is a child's game. It's your willingness to suspend one reality and substitute it for another. That reality lives and breathes in your imagination. The actors that I want to be like exercise that way of thinking, and that's kind of what I do.

Tarantino and Jackson is like Scorsese and DeNiro, and their silent communication.

For violent people to make themselves vulnerable, and then to have that vulnerability be used against them, bad things can happen.

There is something beautiful and permanent in the world, and that is the love that a person can have for another human being.

Whenever you show up on a set where you haven't been from the beginning - at least myself - I'm kind of quiet. I just watch the politics and how everything unfolds. It's kind of like going to a new high school. You want to see who everyone is before you introduce yourself, really, to kind of make friends. I think any smart person does that in social situations

Maybe when you're alone or no one's looking, you dare to think, "Maybe someday I could get to work with somebody like Quentin Tarantino." For me, it happened. And it didn't just happen once, it's happened twice.