I always feel that if you put me in a room with a director and a writer and let me talk about the script, I can give a good account of myself.

I still have issues around forgetting that it's my life and if I want to do something, I can do it.

You never want to be forced to do something. But the world around you starts to influence you in ways you never expected.

Those things [t hydraulic penises and prosthetic butts and all that] can be what's genuinely shocking about the movie [Swiss Army Man] because people wouldn't expect to be moved by any of it.

I think being on a film set for such a long time made me a technical actor without realizing it.

I've always had, like, from the age of about 11, I've had such an intolerance for bad behaviour of actors that I don't think I was ever going to be that person.

It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true.