My Mum Raised Us On Classic Movies

I Love Storytelling, You Know, Beyond Anything. I Love A Great Story Beyond A Great Performance. Storytelling Is About What We All Do Together And How We Collaborate Together. A Performance Can Be A Collaboration In Ways, But Oftentimes It's One Individual Thing.

When I Look At That Now, All I Think About Is What A Master [david Fincher] I Was Working With, And All Of The Things I Could Have Watched And Learned - And I Didn't. And How, Now, In My Career, How I Would Love To Have A Ton Of Takes.

Every Journey Starts With Fear.

I Have Always Had A Deep Belief That Every Movie, Every Artistic Expression, Is Political. Don't Be Fooled. Even Ones That We Wouldn't Consider Overtly Political Are Political. When We Spend Time Doing Anything, Whether It's Distraction Or Whether It's Something That We Have To Face, It Is Always Political. That's My Belief.

As Uta Hagen Would Say, There's The Representational Actor And The Presentational Actor. My Sister [maggie Gyllenhaal] Came Up To Me Recently After She Saw This Movie, Southpaw, The Movie I Did, And She Thought There Was This Exploration Of That Type Of Presentation, And A Bit Of Representation As Well, If I Could Be Totally Honest, Where She Was Deeply Moved.