I like female directors that gravitate toward masculine things. I think the danger of a male director is the over-fetishization of the masculinity.

The characters I play always seem eerily appropriate to where I am in my personal life at the time, and if they're not, there always tends to be this notion that I should be learning something to apply to my own life from these people.

I'm friends with a lot of Brits, and they tell me when they're over here what a huge phenomenon 'The Wire' has become. Some things just attain critical mass after they're already dead and buried, and I don't know why it was the case with 'The Wire'.

There is no external means, whether it's my career, or money or house or a wife or anything, that is going to set me right.