But filming is good for you, because the crew isn't allowed to laugh. You can't get addicted to getting the laugh.

I hope I'm able to achieve more on camera through stillness, through focus, through being quite careful to do less on every take, rather than more. So I'm reducing, rather than adding. Which hopefully is a good exercise. That's what I'd like to do.

Sometimes it's right to do the wrong things and right now is one of those times.

I don't want to be like the actor who rehearses everything in the bathroom, then comes to the set and carries on completely uninterrupted while the other actors tiptoe away.

I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.

We are adjusters. We empathize, we change rhythm and above all we listen to our fellow actors-if they're good actors.

You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.