It's an incredible privilege for an actor to look into the camera. It's like looking right into the heart of the film, and you can't take that lightly.

I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's very character driven.

And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing.

In my early career I was like a goldfish. Rejection didn't affect me; I'd just forget how bad it was and keep going back for more.

You have to play the logic of a character.

It's a whole different kind of anxiety. But the great thing about doing a theatre job is that once the ball starts rolling you just have to go with it, it's inexorable.

I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager.

I've always been creative, I think.

My husband. He keeps me grounded. If I were in the world on my own, it would all be much more seductive. But I'm in a relationship that has nothing to do with the film world.

As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating.

Friends always say you don't realise how robust your baby is until you drop it.

No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.

I've always been a massive Beastie Boys fan, so if you look at their style aesthetic on Check Your Head, that was the headspace I was in for a minute. Whatever that was, that was me.

People sometimes say how standup is so hard, and I always tell them that it's hard at the beginning.

Images provide a knowledge that we can interiorize rather than 'apply,' can take to that place in ourselves where there is water and where reeds and grasses grow.

Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.

I am a comedian and I started in stand-up when I was 22.

You don’t know what’s going to happen in the end, and that’s what the best plays are.

I'm a happy person, and I want everybody else to be happy. Nothing wrong with that.

I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten into vague trouble with my agents for turning down work that I thought was exploitative.

Au contraire..." "What?" Constance demanded. Curtain blinked. ~ The Perilous Journey