When You're Working With The

My Truth - What I Believe - Is That There Are No Answers Here And, If You Are Looking For Answers, You'd Better Choose The Question Carefully.

When You Are Portraying Somebody That Has A Very Specific Emotional Weight, You Feel Like You're Really Starting To Abandon Your Own Body And Go To Someplace Else.

And The Whole Oscar Thing, That Is Just Surreal: You Spend Months And Months Doing Promotion, And Then Come Back To Reality With This Golden Thing In Your Hands. You Put It In The Office And Then You Just Have To Look At It Sitting On The Shelf. And, After About Two Weeks, You Go: 'what Is That Doing There?'

But I Remember The Moment When My Father Died. I Wasn't A Very Committed Catholic Beforehand, But When That Happened It Suddenly All Felt So Obvious: I Now Believe Religion Is Our Attempt To Find An Explanation, For Us To Feel More Protected.

[that Night] I Was Sitting By Jack Nicholson With My Long List Of Thanks, And I Said, `i'm So Nervous. I Don't Know What To Say If I Go Up There.' He Said, `don't Get Emotional, Drop The Names, And Dedicate It To Your Mother.'