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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.

I think there are a lot more relationship scenes in my movies that people tend to overlook. A lot of scenes really feel real and are about the characters.

Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is.

I do get very involved in making a scene work without giving too much thought about how it affects the overall, which I think is hard to know in any case.

Sometimes you do complete run-throughs of scenes, sometimes you break scenes down into little bits. It just depends on what the actors like to do. It's almost like jamming.

When the scenes are written really great, we as actors try not to mess them up by getting in the way.

Action scenes are not that different from other scenes.

The scene is never really about moving the story forward on 'Breaking Bad.' That's the functional veneer of the scene, but it's always about what's going on with the characters.

Even Shakespeare gives you a scene off.