I actually really love working with young actors because they're so responsive and instinctive, and it's a much less honed craft that they're employing.

A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you've got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don't have that hunger.

There's something to play if there's conflict going on. Whatever that conflict is, that's where drama is; if the character is grappling with something you've got something to play, there's layers to it.

I watch a film and the most important thing to me is what I think of the movie.

I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

When you're doing those operation scenes, you not only have to be on top of the dialogue and the rhythm of the dialogue and what's happening dramatically, but you've got to technically get the rhythm right, so that everything is fitting with the dialogue at the right time. And you're performing the operation to the audience that's watching it. Thackery has to present it, as well. In some ways, that's the most challenging.

For some people, an event happens and they are thrown into a tabloid feeding ground.