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Mostly I work really unconsciously, and I think if the scenes are really well written, which they are, and if I just throw myself into it, I don't really think about it.

I don't like to intellectualize about my acting. I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again.

I try not to do scenes a certain way, because then I become conscious of it, and it dosen't come off as realistic. I try to make it so that I'm not really aware of what I'm doing.

When I go out to direct a film, every day we prepare too much, we think too much. Knowledge becomes a weight upon wisdom. You know, simple words lost in the quicksand of experience.

I don't like to intellectualize about my acting.

I try not to think about any of the production side of things. If you do, you tend to get unfocused and distracted. I just try to think about the character and the scene and what I'm doing.

Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained.

If I'm doing a scene that requires a lot of focus, I'll just take myself away and do what I have to do.

If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer.