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" I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away. "

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" There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there. "

" At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really. "

" It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you. "

" I just like working with smart people. "

" I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions. "

" The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions. "

" In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story. "

" I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions. "