I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

If you have to be frightening, you need some actors around you to be really frightened. And if they're not frightened, you're not so frightening anymore. In the same way, people say, 'I think you come in, and you're really sexy'. But how do you play sexy? It depends on the eyes that are looking.

I'm not ambitious about my career, but I am ambitious with each job. I can be fairly annoying to work with.

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