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I never think of myself as lumbering, but I guess I am. I forget how huge I am sometimes. I've seen movies where I'm with a group of people, and I'm like, 'God, I'm just so gargantuanly bigger than anyone else there.'

I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.

When you read a script, you get a feeling from it.

I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.

For years, I was often afraid to speak up when I didn't fully understand a script. I'd tie myself in knots.

A different script calls for different things. It always takes me a long time to get to know the part, and know the logic behind the words. I have to be with the script for quite a long time before things start to fall into place, before they become part of the character.

I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you?

For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.'

I guess, as a director, you sort of take the script, and you find ways to interpret it.