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When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.

As an actor you appreciate the security of a job. But I don't ever want to get too comfortable.

Actors are smart. They have to feel safe enough to fall and to get back up. My job is to make sure they don't get hurt.

I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about.

I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That's the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.

I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.

You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom.

I love actors that are brave, that are courageous. And courage to me is not the absence of fear, it's the presence of fear, and they go to places that really scare them, because as an audience, that's where you feel danger.

I like dangerous directors who like dangerous actors and dangerous productions.