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If I'm doing a scene that requires a lot of focus, I'll just take myself away and do what I have to do.

I think some people have a rare ability to focus. As a player, Earl Thomas has it. When he was at practice or in a game, he was always on; he was right there.

I've always had, when I needed it, an extreme amount of focus that I could put into something. That has served me well.

Catching the right fleeting moment, with the right focus, is a very difficult thing to do.

On the personal side, I was rock climbing and taking pictures with my friends. We took all sorts of portrait and action pictures, and I was thinking at the time that these are inherently difficult to focus correctly.

I'm looking for an intensity of focus. It's a bit like tuning a guitar string. You tighten and tighten, and nothing really changes until you hit that tension, and suddenly it's there: you've got a note.

I don't think focus is in itself ever a bad thing. But focus of the wrong kind, or managed poorly, can be.

When I was younger, me and my brother got a video camera, and he used to direct and I used to act. We used to make these silly, stupid short films, which, looking back now, were probably horrible.

You have twenty-one days to shoot a whole movie and sometimes you go into that thinking 'ugh, this could potentially be really, really difficult' and it turns out to be the most incredible experience.

I'm very big on focus.