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I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

How I'm portrayed in films has more to do with the filmmaking and what they need in the story than anything else. I'm the same person I've always been, I just get used in different ways according to the filmmakers' needs - which is fine with me; it makes for great films.

In the end of the day, you are human. Film is a job which is not an individual job; you have tons and tons of people behind you - you have a whole crew of people working. But, an actor is the face of a film, so you get all of the good things, but you get the bad things, also.

You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fantasy, the ideal.

Every time you do a movie, it's important for your career, your reputation.

Your relationship to a film, and to cinema, is very much determined by yourself, so what is relevant is you.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

I still haven't made a film that defines who I am.

Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something.

I believe in what movies say, and I'm not an actor because I want things to be about me. I have no interest - if there was any way for my face to not be in a movie and still be an actor, I would do it.