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I think actors always find the dialogue doesn't quite fit, so you always have to play with it.

Reading great dialogue as an actor is such a rare privilege.

I come from a tradition where the writer writes a play for the actors, rather than for himself, and the dialogue is made to work onstage, so it needs actors to help shape it. So you never get a play right straightaway.

There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.

I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever.

If you try to talk about yourself honestly when you're an actor, you come off as stuck on yourself.

As an actor, you try to put a little bit of yourself in everything you do.

In every movie I do have a dialogue.

A really useful quality to have as an actor is a lack of self-awareness. I try and get into the character's thinking, and some of them just aren't really that bothered about how they come across or aware of how they come across.

Good actors, especially when they know their character, will come in and either tell you in advance that they have an idea, or in the middle of the rehearsal or the scene they'll let it loose and you go, 'Ah that's great.'