There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

I wanted to see how much I could portray, just with voice-over and just the image I present onscreen. It's a different kind of acting for me . . . It's like silent-film acting and radio acting, at the same time.

For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver.