“You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of...” — Aaron Stanford Quote

You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especially a film actor - is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There's no trick to it. You just have to do.

I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.

Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.

It's fun playing villains. It's people who are not held by any moral constraints - or any constraints, for that matter. It's a chance to be completely off the leash and do things that you never could in real life.

As an actor, you want to know if you're keeping a secret or telling the truth.

My first TV show was 2003. You wouldn't be in the game this long if you were using stooges and actors and all that kind of stuff; quite honestly, the answer is we don't need them.

I want to photograph what I see and put it in a dramatic context. I'm an actor and a writer, and I want to tell these stories and present these shapes, colors and movements as I see them, as I see them serve a narrative. As I see that narrative serve an audience. That's what I want to do.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.