One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven't seen him in five years. Where have you been? So, it's a special event, right? Well, if you want to go see a movie that I'm in, it still may be a special event for you, but, you don't feel like you don't know where I've been.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone's inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

I like quips. I like whiffs of cynicism and I think they can be witty. But I don't really know where wittiness is constructive.

There are so many stage actors on TV but you wouldn't know they were stage actors. And film and TV actors are going to the stage as well, so the crossover is great now.

You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.

I've done films where we don't rehearse, and I've done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.