I Was Really Not Familiar At All

The Director Is The Captain Of The Ship, Without Question. No Matter What Their Talent Or Energy Level Is, Everyone On The Crew Has All Eyes On The Captain. If They Come In Going, "i Don't Know. Maybe We'll Do This. Maybe We'll Do That," You've Got 10 Days To Shoot And They Don't Care What You're Doing.

It Becomes More And More Popular To Call Actors Who Play Characters "character Actors." But I've Always Been Somebody Who Is Much More Invested In Who I Am Playing Than How They Look.

Acting Is The Business Of Truth, So That We Can See Ourselves Reflected Back And Learn.

I Was Really Not Familiar At All With Edward Snowden. I Like To Get That Right Out Of The Way And Really Learned Most Of What I Know From Oliver's [stones] Script.

"i'm Going To Show You I Haven't Given You Permission Because Clearly You're Not Grown Up Enough To Understand That, Not Having Given You Permission, You Can't Just Come Look In My House." And I Won't Know If They're Coming And Looking Or Not... So I Put A Piece Of Tape Over It.