We Are Now Living In

Being An Actor Means Asking People To Look At You. I Guess I Accept That. But It's A Profession In Which The Job Is To Show Another World And Other People. You May Access It Through Bits Of Yourself, And Your Imagination And Experience, But Actually, In The End, You're Not Playing Yourself.

Performance Is Made In The Editing Room, And I've Come To See The Truth In That - The Idea That They Say Performances Are Usually Made In The Editing Room Because What You Film Is The Raw Material. I Think Just Going Through The Process Of Saying, "which Take Do We Use? Why Is That The Take We Want? I Want That Take Can You Edit Again, I'm Not Sure That's The One, I Think It's This One." And Just Because You Go Through That Process, I Think Somehow It's Made Me Sort Of More Open About The [actor's] Possibilities.

I Never Studied Anything About Film Technique In School. Eventually, I Realized That Cinema And Theater Are Not So Different: From The Gut To The Heart To The Head Of A Character Is The Same Journey For Both.

When You Get Into The Edit You'll Understand What Making A Film Is. You'll See All The Things You Missed And All The Possibilities You Have From What You Shot.

You Have To Just Dive Over The Edge. You Haven't Got Time To Mess About.