You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.
You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.
We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.
You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.
It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.
There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.
There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.
There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.
Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.
One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.
The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.
Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.