I am extremely shy. I am not happy in crowds of people.
It's not good to be in a situation where people don't want to direct you or don't want to question something.
The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.
I think everybody wants to connect. There is nothing worse than feeling disconnected. And stories that really move people and make people care are the ones where they feel some sort of connection.
I have the belief that truly evil people, it's a genetic evil. I only have the experience of exploring the landscape of some of the characters I've played that people have labeled as evil; I don't think they're evil.
I think having pets helps sensitize people to the natural world.
I don't have the body or the face for romantic comedies, so I've never been offered those. The challenge is that a lot of people see you only as your last character, so you're constantly competing with whatever your last movie was.
What's so fascinating about people is what they don't show. People are masters at it; usually actors show too much.
People think that the ocean is big enough to sustain anything we throw at it - its hard to get into your head that it's actually finite.
So I think things are going to get closer and closer to each other, because the screens will force that to happen. I think there are a lot of movies that people will only see on their computers or their iPods.