Oscar Isaac
Oscar Isaac
Oscar Isaac is a Guatemalan American actor and musician. He is known for his lead film roles in the comedy-drama Inside Llewyn Davis, for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination, the crime drama A Most Violent Yearand the science fiction thriller Ex Machina. In 2006 he portrayed Joseph, husband of Mary, in The Nativity Story. He also portrayed José Ramos-Horta, former president of East Timor, in the Australian film Balibo for which he won the AACTA Award for...
NationalityGuatemalan
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth9 March 1979
CountryGuatemala
People resent movies that try to tell them exactly what to feel.
My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff.
My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason.
Max Minghella is a very close friend of mine, and I talk to him regularly.
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.
In the 1960s, there was a forward way of speaking and inflection.
If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out.
I've always liked acoustic blues. I liked Bob Dylan a lot.
I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.
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.
I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that.
I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.