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For me, my first hearing of the script matters. It has to excite me as an actor and as an audience.

Script comes first, then the actors, then you gotta be lucky enough to get the right time slot. Then people have to watch.

It's very different when you're reading a script to when you're watching a movie for the first time.

I'm not yet fortunate enough to take only the scripts that capture my fancy, but each one has to be a new experience, to put me in a light that audiences haven't necessarily seen me before.

I'm not accustomed to doing films without seeing the script.

It's never a script that makes me decide to accept a film or not.

If I read a script and I like it, there's nothing that will stop me from trying to be in that movie.

Every time I start a film I feel like I'm starting the first time, ever.

I opened the script to the 'The Wall,' and 15 minutes later I was done with it, and I loved the movie and wanted to be part of it.

When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience.