Oscar Isaac

It's nice to create a character, not just within two scenes, but within the journey of a whole movie. It's fun to do that.

I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.

I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return.

The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.

I really just like characters who you don't know where they stand for a long while. It's like people. You hang out with them for 10 years, and then all of a sudden they do something, and you say, 'Who are you?' That's more interesting. In life and on-screen.

The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.

My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I wanted to learn to play guitar, so I got an acoustic and started taking lessons. I wanted to be able to shred like Yngwie Malmsteen.

I'm so bored by business and money.

Our morality is based on so many factors: of where we were born, who we were born to, what values were instilled in us, what values we chose, the way that our lives have shaped us. That dictates so much of what we assume is our morality, and also the culture, all of these things.

I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.

Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get. That's why their movies stand up particularly well to repeated viewing and investigation.

Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.