Courtney Gains

I think acting and psychology are both looking at what makes human beings tick. I've always found that fascinating.

I like the movie 'Das Boot,' the German film made in the '80s. I found out it was a series that was made into a film for the U.S.

I'm good at cold reading; I've made a living doing this, and most of the time I do audition, but it's very tough. It's a very uncomfortable, awkward process. You never get used to it, really.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

The flaw of an amateur is to assume what's in our head is what's on the page.

What was always interesting about Thomas Harris' books is they were a wonderful hybridization of a crime thriller and a horror movie.