I like little collaborations where the other thing happens, where it’s half-baked or it’s improvised, and let’s develop it together. “What do you want to wear? Do you have an idea?” All that’s fun to do, and I like that, but it doesn’t take anything away.

I do a lot of talking, playing with the audience, but I don’t really know what that’s going to be. Somebody kind of feeds me cold. He gives me these kind of cold games that I play with the audience or quizzes that I do with them.

Actors don’t necessarily want to be famous or rich or anything else. It’s a very bad gamble if that’s what you’re after.

It’s not charming to go on a show and say, I dunno. It doesn’t fool anybody. There’s nothing glamorous about it at all.

I’m always interested in the unexpected and know that things, especially in show business, but in life generally, are inevitably fleeting to one extent.

Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It’s very contemporary.

Sometimes I think that people’s characters get forged, at least in part, from their names.

An actor wants to get up every day and they can’t think of anything particularly more fun to do than getting into a made-up situation and living it out as if it’s real.

It’s nice to play a character that has a soulful, dependent, close relationship. It must mean my character is interesting in some way.

The universe is so big, there’s so many worlds, there must be one of them or more, something that’s alive.