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A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.

As an actor, I always feel you basically have to be able to delude yourself.

I like this other world, this forgetting of myself. The actor works in order to escape, not to find himself. You become an actor by leaving yourself, and then you have to keep acting. How tragic!

I'm not one of those actors who gets physically fit for a role and then loses it all again.

I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character.

I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.

I don't just act, and that's really important to me. I don't want to just be an actor forever.

I can disappear into things very easily. But with acting, you have to be in the moment, and it gives me this incredibly fulfilling emotion: being really present.

When you get a role, you completely lose yourself in it. That's one of the great things about acting - letting yourself go.

You can keep yourself alive. That's the magic of being an actor.