Television in America is so elaborate. There are so many remote cranes, and they have all the toys to play with. The directors are really good. They really work with you. So, I'm not really on set thinking, 'Oh, my God, this is television. It's very different.'
I used to be very afraid of flying. It would creep me out and make me very tense and very uncomfortable, and I would sweat or even cry. I was very, very scared of dying, but I'm not anymore. Fears need to be indulged, in order to exist. I don't have much time to indulge in any fears.
Most of the characters I play are heavily engulfed in some sort of fantasy world.
This business is hard. People and producers and studios and finance guys get caught up in saying, 'Women don't sell movies,' or 'This person doesn't sell foreign,' or 'You have to attach guys first,' or 'People don't want to see women do this.' I've heard those things so many times that I've actually heard myself say them, a number of times.
If you can ride through Texas with somebody, which is 700 miles of just straight, flat freeway riding, then you can be friends with them forever.
I think I was obsessed with the culture of riding. I got sick of having to date guys who rode motorcycles for me to be on them.
With vampires, there is such a great tradition that you suddenly find yourself a part of. Each generation reinvents what that means to them.
I love the idea of creating a sort of nuanced portrait of kids that they're not all perfect. They're kind of misfits but not in a picturesque, hip way, they're really, really kids that are not entirely great.
There's something really nice about having a group of people that you're committed to, that you work with and that there's a future in it. Film is like a party, and then it's over, whereas this hopefully feels like a family.
When you're shooting 20-odd episodes in a season, the last thing you want is for each script to be the same tone.
You're trying to bring a character to an audience, and tell stories. That's what we're all trying do.
When you're playing a character, you don't really want to have an opinion about where you're going to end up. Otherwise, you can't really stay in the moment and in your character.
Anything that is absurd I see as a Coen brothers' influence! The Coen brothers are my favorite people period.
Back then they had Elvis and they thought Elvis was so risquГ©. So everyone has their perception to what innocence is.
I love the whole of California, I have places... my whole thing is with all the money I make, I just want to buy as many places in California as I can because I love it.
I grew up, especially as an actor thinking that I had to move to New York to be a good actor. But after a while you start to live the world a little bit and you start to appreciate where you're from.
Sometimes you have to search for inspiration with characters, and other times, they just drop out of the sky and arrive.
I really am a character actor, in my heart of hearts, because I really do like developing characters and painting a past for them.
People behave badly and people are in prison and people are on death row, and there are no excuses for everybody's behavior, but most people are coming from abuse.
I like the Polanski stuff more than anything else. Rosemary's Baby is still one of my favorite movies of all time. The idea of her being impregnated with the devil is just so frightening.
