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It's nice to create a character, not just within two scenes, but within the journey of a whole movie. It's fun to do that.

I think it's incumbent on actresses to bring something else to the part which isn't in the script.

As an actor, it's amazing to get to create different characters.

I just think there's always room for humanity in acting, one can only hope, so when you bring in the whole life of a person that's playing a character, then surprises happen and are allowed to happen, and so it makes it more interesting.

All actors bring something unexpected to the role because they have to translate what's on the page and make a real character out of the black-and-white text that's there in the script.

I think it's important that a director be able to know his characters inside and out.

'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' - every scene is from those characters' point of view. They're in literally every scene, very unusual in a big studio film.

I believe that as a writer and a director, you're only providing the skeleton of a character, and you're hiring actors to fill it out.

A lot of actors, we aren't that special; you get a well-written scene, and it's virtually actor-proof.

I guess every character has a little bit of the actor - I guess for every character you play, the actor has to allow a little bit of their own character to show through.