Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

I like throwing snowballs at small children.

You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.

There have been screenwriters who I'm sure would gladly kill me, because I've been very fast and loose with their work, because I felt like it wasn't up to my high standards. I would push and pull it on set, and make changes all the time. But then when you're working with an original screenplay, my theater instincts kick in, and I suddenly become very keeper-of-the-words.

Kevin and Annette... I wanted them to do it together. They clearly wanted to work with each other.