I started performing in high school. There was a pretty great drama department at my school, and that's when I started doing plays and musicals.
'King of California' was just, I thought, a really great, fresh, original kind of script. I loved the tone, the mix of tragedy, comedy, and drama, and that it was a good part.
I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable.
I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.
I would say 80% of the scripts I get are dramas and not comedies or romantic comedies, which is funny because that's what I do every week.
It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
A lot of people who do drama say comedy is the hardest thing, but, not wanting to sound like a bighead, comedy is easy for me, as I've always been fairly funny.
My life is full of drama, and I don't have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like.
What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.
I don't know anybody who walks through life all the time in the doldrums, constantly serious and morose. But that's become what we generalize as drama.
Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.
I did 'Little Dorrit' a few years ago; I really love doing period dramas. It's stuff like that I really enjoy watching.
I just love doing costume dramas; I am very lucky, as I see myself as a part-time time traveller.
I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.
Starting my career in London was no accident because the city and the industry here are all about theatre and drama, and I respond well to that.
This drama between Dean and Ehrlichman took place while I was trying to give the contents to the FBI.
But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.
It's always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.
When you graduate and come out with a degree in drama, that doesn't mean you're skilled and you're a professional.
It wasn't until I got involved in 'Doctor Who' that I started doing dramas on television.
