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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.

It was pretty much the way that it was when I first read it, although one exception would be that some ideas that I had were also incorporated into the script.

I very rarely read a script that I don't feel I want to change a lot.

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'm used to changing a lot of the dialogue. But if I feel like the script is working, I don't want to mess with it.

You stick to the script, the script is Bible.

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

It's very different when you're reading a script to when you're watching a movie for the first time.

When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used Heart of Darkness. Novels usually have so much rich material.

Theater is so precious about each word - not that it's a bad thing, but you definitely never stray from the script.