Art is not created in a vacuum. That experience is something to be shared with a group of people, and to be moved in that way.

I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.

I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.

I think I've made a career out of making despicable people likable.

The guy who kills 38 people is not the guy you'd want to have over at Thanksgiving.

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

I have a bit of a bucolic kind of upbringing, and so I certainly bring an amalgamation of different people that I've met over the course of my life, especially before moving to Los Angeles, so I guess my childhood was my homework in a lot of ways for Harlan County.