“He had great charisma and he had great love for people in general, and a great regard for young people, ... He had real faith and real fervor, and he was a man of God. He did some great things, some controversial things.”
“The stuff of his youth was full of real peril and witnessing many extraordinary things, ... [has] got the action part and I've got the elder statesman part -- the papal part.”
“I think I had to live a life (before doing this). For some reason I have had success playing the suffering souls so that the last stages (of the Pope's life) were comfortable for me,”
