When I was a kid at first I wanted to own a candy shop. I guess every kid wants to - we just want to have access - free access..

TV shows are great right now in America. I find myself - and I hate to admit it - but we watch more TV than we go to the movies. As a creative person….

Only in movies or books or TV do we have a chance to actually like aspects of a killer..

I choose my work very carefully, always for the script and the director, and I don't think that's going to change. My work is like a house. It's buil….

Difference is always the biggest challenge for humans. That's why we do enjoy reading or watching movies or watching TV. It's a personal challenge to….

The secret is to just keep moving..

I think working with Johnny Depp was very intimidating. It was my fault though. I mean he's a total cool nice, nice guy, but I was just so, I don't k….

My background is a small town with no movie theater. So... I always pictured myself onstage. I went to acting school and learned all the skills. I le….

I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or something. You don't say, 'From today o….

I think actors are divided into two groups: one that wants to be an actor to become famous and rich, and the other that wants to be an actor because ….

I don't really care where I work, actually, because you know making a movie is like living in movie world. There's such a secluded world, and the dir….

I used to be very afraid of flying. It would creep me out and make me very tense and very uncomfortable, and I would sweat or even cry. I was very, v….

I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have one book coming out in May in German….

I don't like actors who try to talk directors into making their part bigger and that's really lame..

I think I'm a really good partner and very sensitive to the other person's feelings. I want somebody else to be comfortable, to understand about my j….

Everybody is great when things are great. It's the 'not great' stuff that matters..

Television in America is so elaborate. There are so many remote cranes, and they have all the toys to play with. The directors are really good. They ….

I'm so uncomfortable, especially in emotional situations, having to say sentences that don't feel right. As an actor - or really, as any kind of pers….

As the audience, I always love to get to a point where, surprisingly, I find myself in a secret friendship allegiance with the characters that are un….

I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our little bedrooms upstairs, and I would plaster th….

To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give..