You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.

And costume is so important for an actor. It absolutely helps to get into character; it's the closest thing to you, it touches you. Some actors like to go into make-up and then put their clothes on, but I like to dress first; that's my routine.

You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it's Gary Oldman crying; it's not the character crying.

I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.

Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.