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I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.

Usually I'm frustrated when I look at my films and I don't believe that I've made a real transformation beyond my usual sets of gestures and expressions. I still have this nagging feeling that it's me, that I didn't create a unique character.

So far, the thing I seem to have been rewarded for in film is leaving myself behind and transforming myself into other people.

I've very critical of myself, and film has been an adjustment for me.

I'm in a position where I'm being continually knocked back for the kind of independent films I want to be in because people don't know who I am.

Transformational acting was the reason why I became an actor in the first place. Your hair and make-up and the costume are the tools that you have, and it makes you feel like that person. When you look in the mirror, you don't feel like yourself, and it changes the way you move. I love that stuff.

I've gone out of my way to not take baggage with me from film to film.

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

I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.

You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come out in the wash, the film wash. What you are is going to be relevant, if not to yourself, to the movies you make.