After Blood Simple, everybody thought I was from Texas. After Mississippi Burning, everybody thought I was from Mississippi and uneducated. After Far….
I'm open to doing any kind of role and any kind of genre as long as it's interesting and as long as I feel it could be a great character to play. I n….
Just the way LA is laid out - 30 miles of disparate neighborhoods - adds to the loneliness of the characters. There's a lot more space to feel isolat….
I don't ever feel a full transition to my character. I don't ever feel like I have left myself, because if I did, I would need professional medical a….
I turn 30 next month, and in my 20s, I've been in this limbo of being too old to play the young lead, and too young to play the 30, 35 - year - old. ….
I don't think you have to like a character, but if you can understand why they do what they do, or the position they're in or why they make certain c….
The thing is, I want to play real characters and not all girls can be pretty. The thing is, you get these girls who say 'I'm a character actor' then ….
The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual..
When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of wa….
Our human landscape is overburdened with competitions and contests. Art need not be a contest. Art is a personal quest for quality. Quality is the fo….
I can't tell you why I keep getting asked to play gay characters, but I never really considered 'gay' as an adjective, as a playable thing. Maybe it'….
Big hooks have always been a part of American movie-making. So, to make a movie where you're just driving story through the characters without a high….
There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw..
A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complicatio….
Fringe' was the first time I realized that I could ever man up in a character and make this transition from being a boy or a young man into actually ….
Comedy always works better when you're tracking the story and you care about the characters. That's why there's a lot of movies where there's not a t….
I very easily decide in certain situations that I'm an outsider. That's just my own craziness. I think that I have sympathy for those characters who ….
The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character..
I don't regret anything. I feel like I've made what I would call mistakes. I picked the wrong movie, or I didn't pursue a character, but everything y….
Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution of his work..
There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantast….