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As an actor, you always want to feel like what you're doing is making a difference to the story.

As actors, you like to think about the luxury of having choices in your career, but for the most part you kind of take whatever comes your way and hope that you carved out something that you're proud of in the end.

As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.

I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.

Being an actor, we're so dependent on the writers.

The only way I can feel comfortable being an actor is if I can find stories that I believe are important to be shared.

Obviously, for me, story is first and foremost, even in the face of the attractive idea of having all the cast there, or having a great piece of talent come to it.

And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist.

You need supporting actors to help to tell the story. For me, I'm lucky to be a part of the films. Being an actor, I'll take any role, whether it's supporting or leading.

I think that's why I'm an actor: so I can tell those stories without having to really live through those stories with real consequences and real stakes, real responsibility.