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When I do a mask, I do try to put a lot of character and a lot of expression into the sculpt.

I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.

I'm an actor, in particular, that likes to have a mask or something that can help me distance myself from the character. Like the moustache or an accent.

You learn to rely on a few basic movements and use your voice to the greatest extent possible to convey your emotions. So there was a technical challenge there and a responsibility to create a character from behind the mask.

Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen.

Like the character I played in 'Jekyll', we all have different masks we put on for different occasions. As much as we all want to lead decent lives, we're also attracted by the idea that something dark may lurk within us.

I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.

When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.

Although I know it's unfair I reveal myself one mask at a time.