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I seem to be attracted to the quiet, brooding type. But not too brooding. Too brooding can be narcissistic. Or psychotic.

What I'm normally associated with are darker, more brooding roles.

The fact is I'm choosy, but mainly about a man's character. He has to be interesting, funny and clever. I don't even mind if he's not very good-looking.

If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time.

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

My favorite one... it's hard to pick a favorite. But the one I really love a lot is 'A Serious Man.' I just love, love 'A Serious Man.'

I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

I tend to gravitate toward conflicted characters, and a character who is exploring chaos theory and population control and the difficulties of love and family is pretty rich.

I like those stories that capture the brutality of life, but there's still some kind of melancholy romance.

I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.