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The biggest compliment I can ever get as an actor is to have someone say, 'We didn't recognize you.'

Now, I love movies so much, but I find a lot of movies to be arrogant in the way they're kind of know-it-alls - they have perfect characters on the screen that know everything about themselves.

And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment.

It's impossible to capture every single facet of someone's personality in a film.

Sometimes movies gloss over things, and it was important to me that this was realistic.

You are defined by who you are, by your choices in life, in all regards, not just in doing movies.

I think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten.

The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer in the sense that some of the characters I've cared about the most in movies are characters that are often thought of as despicable.

In movies, you get to explore parts of yourself that in real life, people shy away from, like looking stupid or embarrassing yourself or getting too angry, anything inappropriate. As an actor, you walk into those moments.