For me, there have been times when an action movie, even a 'Tomb Raider,' has helped me get out of myself and be physical again. It's like therapy.
I'm terrible at reading scripts. I love to read, and I hate reading scripts.
I'm odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.
My children love Maleficent's voice, so they always make me do it at home.
I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.
It's probably not an accident that the films that I care about happen to be about issues that matter to me, stories that I want to tell.
When I feel I'm doing too much, I do less if I can.
I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.
It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn't mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some way and contributes to others.
I imagine I will spend my days traveling from country to country to visit our children, who I expect will live around the world.
If anything, I get most upset because I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don't think much of the rest of the newspaper.
Homework's hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, 'Okay.' And then I sit down and they say, 'It's math.' 'No! Not math! English, history, anything!'
There's nothing I have to hide or defend. I'm gonna live my life. And there are times when people wanna try to attack me, and I don't know why, but they will. And that's okay.
I probably wouldn't have made it this far if I were a refugee.
