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I love making movies, but there's nothing like performing live.

Live theatre provides a rush you can't get in film or television. But it is the TV and film work that offers the leisure to go off and do a play.

There's real drama in performing live. You never know how it's going to be.

A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.

There is nothing like a live performance. You can look at things on television, and you can look at things on YouTube, but when you get in a room full of people and you say one joke, and everyone's laughing at the same thing, it's a really great experience.

A video taped stage performance is just - you know, it's never gonna be the same as it is if you're sitting there live in the theatre.

For me, I've never drawn a distinction between live-action acting and performance-capture acting. It is purely a technology.

I felt from time to time that shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do. Ideally, the cinema is becoming one with the music. There is little artifice involved. There's no acting. I love it.

Playing live is closer to theatre, although when you're up there on your own, it's quite scary and revealing because you're playing your own songs. It's like a one man show that you've written yourself.