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You try to get to know your character as best as you can before you start filming - what's written and not written.

With any character you portray, you can never play the end in the beginning. You have to pursue and attack your intention as if they're going to be successful.

Once you take a role, you have to do it properly and do it justice.

I always do whatever is best for the character.

You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.

The rules are: The only ego is the film, and you have to serve the film.

In acting, quite a lot of the time you're not the first choice. Usually, you're second or third. And it can turn out to be the best thing that ever happened. You get used to that.

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

Since I started acting, I always or often find work takes precedence with me. And that is not necessarily a great rule for life.

I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they're in the screen.