“Whatever the genre of film you’re doing and whatever the source material is, you have to adapt to the different genre, but it’s the same work, as an actor. You’re just trying to ground it in reality and find your truth in it.”

Sometimes I find myself at three o’clock in the morning painting something and throwing things around and seeing what works. I’d like to properly study fine art. I think it would be quite an interesting endeavor.

A lot of times, when you’re seeing something that you’ve done, you’re thinking about the experience you had making it, not about the experience of the product.

I like charcoal drawing a lot. I’m not very good, but I always find myself buying canvases and paints whenever I’m on location, because I always have this ambition to fill the hotel room I’m in and turn it into an art studio.

Drama schools are very small community, a very incestuous community, so you get to know one another very, very quickly and it just washes over after a while. Every now and then I’ll say “dude” or I’ll say “bro,” and people will laugh.

When you’re doing a play, you don’t always have a practical world that you’re working off of. You have to create it for yourself.

I’m a total luddite when it comes to technology. Pretending I know how to use a computer is a challenge.

Your liberals and radicals all want to govern. They want to try it their way- to show that people will be happier if the power is wielded in a different way or for different purposes. But how do they know? Have they ever tried it? No, it’s merely their guess.

Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their voices out there. I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.

Barcelona is always a club that, at the beginning of the season, wants to win everything. I will try my best to do that with them and I’m sure I will help as much as I can.

When you try to help people become a better person, you’re going to have to find out what’s really going in their world.

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.

Hell must be a pretty swell spot, because the guys that invented religion have sure been trying hard to keep everybody else out.

One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.