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I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day.

I just think there are enough hours in the day. If you just focus and dedicate yourself and approach each task as it presents itself, you can accomplish a lot.

The challenge in daytime in particular, I think, is to go against all the traditional cliches of daytime and try to make it real.

I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.

Getting in and out of a character takes its own time for me.

When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.

As with anything, you need to keep your creative juices flowing and keep the character interesting.

Some days are more intense and quiet, and then other days, you feel more relaxed and are able to open up on set. It just depends on what you're doing that day. I like to imagine that all the choices you make during the day that you're doing a particular scene are going to feed into the creation of that scene.

No matter how much I plan the overall arc of the character, you get there day one on the film and you shooting certain scenes first, and it goes completely different to anything you ever thought of, and then it's done.

I come to work on time. I focus on my job. I bust my scenes out and everything else kind of happens from there.