Sometimes when you're playing a very intense character, a disturbed character, you find other layers. That's much more interesting to me, rather than just playing 'intense.' I find it too boring.

What happens with every role, you have to trick yourself, you have to creatively find ways to explore the mental state of your character.

I can't think of a more pathetic situation for an actor than to do a film and not connect to it. And I pray to God that I never face that situation.

When you come out of the theatre and you don't even talk about that film or remember it, then it disappoints me.

I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.

For me, acting is becoming naked in front of people, you know? And when you know in the back of your mind somebody is testing you, you cannot really bare yourself. That's a feeling I always have when I'm auditioning.