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When you work on a film, it's important to feel that you are starting afresh and doing it for the first time. Also, it's important to have those butterflies in your stomach; you need to wonder how you are going to approach the character and whether you will be able to do justice to the part.

First scenes are super-important to me. I'll spend months and months pacing and climbing the walls trying to come up with the first scene. I drive for hours on the freeway.

I think a first-time director always has to convince a lot of people that they're ready to do it.

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

A strong emotion, especially if experienced for the first time, leaves a vivid memory of the scene where it occurred.

I believe that first impressions are very important.

I think it's really important whilst you're a young actor to try as many new things as possible... to try and do something you haven't necessarily been seen doing before.

When you hear that you're going to be working with a first-time director, sometimes that can be a concern to people.

I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.

To be allowed for the first time in your later career to play leading parts in extremely popular movies is not a situation to worry about.