There's a lot of noise in the world. And one of the beautiful things about doing theater and film is the absence of that noise or, perhaps, the adding of that noise where it's helpful in telling the story. I'm always trying to get rid of that noise. The more you do it, the better you get.

I love throwing myself into people who actually lived. It gives me a lot to research and a lot to know.

Doing film and television demands a kind of simplicity. If you think something differently, the camera will pick it up.

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