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I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with characters, not the other way around.

The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters.

The main thing that I learned from editing is that most people, when they're making a film, they start too early into the story. They will try to set up the characters, they will try to establish things before the plot actually starts.

Before I film a movie, I look at how the character will move and walk.

I watched so many comic book movies where the actors weren't as built as the characters in the book. It made me mad because they didn't look right.

I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I try to be invisible.

I'm a character actor but unlike a lot of character actors, I don't look radically different from film to film and there was a bunch of them at once.

It's nice to create a character, not just within two scenes, but within the journey of a whole movie. It's fun to do that.