I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.
I always like teaser trailers because they don't give too much away, you know? They give just a flavor of what the thing is.
Humans are mutants, everything's a mutant - things that evolve.
Cats are impossible to work with. They're just very difficult because you can't really train them. They're not really interested in whatever you want them to do. Dogs want to please you; cats only want to please themselves.
I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.
I remember the first time my mind was blown by an actor was Tim Curry, because I loved 'Clue' when I was a kid, and then I was watching the movie 'Legend,' and the Devil suddenly smiles, and I was like, 'It's the same guy!' It was a total Keyser Soeze moment.
The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.
A personal game-changer was when Ridley Scott cast me as King John, the King of England, for 'Robin Hood.'
Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation.
A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated.
When I moved to New York, I had to let my band know that I couldn't play anymore, and that was difficult to leave that behind.
The very first proper play I did was 'Godspell,' and I played the guitar for it, and I had a small part in a high school play. And before that, in sixth grade, I wrote a musical about Noah's ark.
How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
Max Minghella is a very close friend of mine, and I talk to him regularly.
I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.
The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.
Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get. That's why their movies stand up particularly well to repeated viewing and investigation.
I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part.
Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
