With the movies, you do your preparation on your own. It's much more internalized and ... the actual performance is a kind of, just trying to capture….

It's great to play a rock star. Maybe not so great to be one..

Acting can be very selfish and all-consuming..

I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am..

The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor..

As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film..

When you speak in another accent, it affects you. You can't help but be changed by it..

The research period of a film is the most exciting part of the process, and filming is sometimes a letdown because when you're dealing with biopic ma….

There are so many factors that go into how you feel, as a performer, on any given movie, that it's really hard to identify which things are the thing….

Producing is the antidote to acting. Producing is practical problem solving all day long. As opposed to endless self-obsession and navel gazing..

There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is..

For a long time a lot of people thought I'm British, because I'd done so many roles with English accents. People probably still think it. Or they don….

I live right under the Hollywood sign, so that every day when I drive home I'm reminded of why I'm here..

A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they’re trying to have a kind of poise or presentation that’s beyond their years that might ….

People are always going to identify with what it's like living in society and have people judge you in certain ways, and how you can be strong enough….

Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses..

Yeah, I’ve played a lot of instruments, and I played in a lot of bands growing up and I’ve even had to play music in a lot of films that I’ve done..

Géza Röhrig is just incredible because he's not an actor, he's a Hungarian poet. He also happens to be a brilliant actor. He's totally unusual, the w….

I guess Ive always wanted to push the boundaries as an actor..

I'd grown up loving English films, I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid..

I see myself as a character actor, and I've always been drawn to playing characters that are different from myself because acting is escapism for me.….