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There were certain films where I went, 'Oh, my God, I'm doing a movie.'

It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves.

When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.

I love films where you go into the cinema and loosen the edges of yourself and you hopefully enter into the world of the film. You're watching something unfold before you. I prefer the idea of wonder or intense wonder over shock or something.

I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.

Once the film is done, then I like to watch myself. I know some actors say that they get very self-conscious watching themselves on screen especially if they have to cry in the scenes, they don't like the way their face contorts, but I have no such issues.

I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking.

I'm used to watching old movies of myself.

I open myself up every time I walk on screen and give you everything that I am. There are parts of me that are in every movie that I've done. That to me is what my job is.