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I'm probably an actor that tends to, instead of putting things on, think about it more in terms of taking away what's not in the character, until I'm left with what is. If that makes sense. That's probably a particularly American way of working, but maybe not. The end of any movie is a readjustment.

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

A lot of the time, as an actor, you don't have the freedom to change what your lines are, and they can often be very unnatural or difficult to portray in a real light.

The truth is, good actors are always looking to do something different. They are dying to play slightly odder characters or work on movies that aren't straight down the middle.

Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like they do nothing wrong, they just keep going, but it's not like that.

In film, there's so many little things where not just the actor can blow his lines, but technically, it doesn't quite come off in the perfect way envisioned.

The trouble with Hollywood films is that they always have a pleasant ending.

When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things.

Not all actresses know how to express their looks, I think. For me, it's an on-again, off-again thing. I'm still struggling.

When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it.