Michiel Huisman

“New Orleans could not be further removed from where I am from. I come from Holland, where everything is perfectly arranged - it's neat; there's no real crime. There's a very strong middle class. Then you get dumped in New Orleans - just the funkiest city, crazy problems, but also street culture unlike anywhere in the States.”

“I respect motorcycles so much.”

“Growing up in Holland, I always thought my name was boring, but in the U.S., all of a sudden I have a very cool name.”

“I think I always wished I could play guitar as well as Jimi Hendrix.”

“I had my first stereo when I turned 12, and every two weeks, I would save up money and buy one CD.”

“The funny thing is, whenever I'm working on something, I kind of forget there's a lot of people watching. It makes it easier to be in the moment and to tell a story as well as possible.”

“I have this old speaker set with amps and a record player from the 1970s. And I'm slowly collecting vinyl again.”

“It sounds so weird, but I'm totally pro-aging. If you look at the film industry, it's so funny how it's so much more accepted that actors begin their prime in their forties or fifties, and for women, it's so different. I think it's time to change that. Aging is a beautiful thing.”

“I hoped that I could learn how to combine an education with acting. But I was unhappy with the direction I chose, so I decided to take on a six-month tour for a musical theater performance, thinking that I'd go back to university in a year. That became two years, then three years, until I really realized I am already doing what I love doing.”

“I think the hardest accent for me to do is what I end up trying a lot of times, and it's like some sort of a general American sound. So not Southern and not east-coast or west-coast, but just a general American sound that no one really speaks, actually.”

“I enjoy watching movies that are high concept or science fiction or have supernatural elements, like '2:22' has.”

“The Dutch film industry is a pretty small community, so within Holland, I think most actors know each other and have worked with each other.”

“I think nothing I've done has impacted my life as much as working on 'Treme,' because it was the first project that I worked on in the United States after being an actor in the Netherlands my whole life, basically.”