You're always being cast for what you've been in last.

Effortless [performance] and improvisation are two different things. Just because it's improvised doesn't mean it's effortless and just because it's effortless doesn't necessarily mean it's improvised.

I take praise as not just a reward and a result but also as the beginning of a new process.

I don't like to read novelizations of movies.

You know, I don't support esoteric approaches to acting.

I'm very bad with improvisation. I hate it.

That's exactly what I'm driving at. 'Basterds' was interesting because it was, in a way, unfamiliar. I thought well, OK. Let's leave the comfort zone and just risk it. Why not? Because, exactly as you said, in a way, by taking that risk, I make up a little bit for my ignorance in the subject, or rather, the genre.