It helps so much being on location. It's like the difference between performing for the rectangle of the camera versus a world being created and then the camera finds things within that. There's a huge difference in that, because what it takes away is performance. You don't feel like performing. You're just kind of doing it. You're existing.
Christian BaleI tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.
Christian BaleDirectors go their whole career without being able to tell personal stories and to work with a cast as talented as they are.
Christian BaleWhen you do a lot of interviews, you find yourself telling the same stories over and over. After you do it for a whole day, you say, 'Christ, I've said this five times today.' It gets fun when you get so bored you start making it all up.
Christian BaleI quite like it when you're working with people and you only get to know them through the scenes that you're doing together.
Christian BaleThere are movies that require fantasy and slightly more fantastical acting. Lines that are good for certain movies, in real life circumstances, would be absolutely unbelievable things to really say, and you would look at these people like they're freaks for conversing that way. But somehow for certain styles of movies, it works, and it seems fine.
Christian Bale