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As an actor, you pay attention very closely to everything that happens to you, and you're constantly watching others as well, trying to just find out where everything comes from.

As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.

I try to really focus on the actors I'm working with and kind of read and respond to their behavior.

Sometimes, as an actor, you're so deeply immersed in a part that you lose control of it. If you're really lucky, a few times in your life it'll take you somewhere you never expected to go. It really blows the top off your understanding of your craft.

I've worked with some of the great cinematographers. So I'm always watching what they do and I'm watching how the director composes his shots, just because I find it interesting as an actor; you're trying to help them out as well.

As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.

What happens so often as an actor is that you retain the information about the scenes that you yourself shot and you obsess over certain scenes that you found the most challenging or interesting. The rest of the film kind of falls away in your memory or it fades a little bit.

I spend a lot of my time trying to draw the attention of actors to the minute and subtle details of human behavior, which was the sort of thing I was looking at when I was a neurologist.

Every time I work, it's an educational process because I learn by watching other actors. My career is always going to be an ongoing study.

As actors, we need to do our parts exactly the way they have visualised it, because if we don't, we have to keep doing it many times over.