From My Experience, I Think

The First Time That I Came To New York To Work Properly Was The Mid-'80s, But I Was Doing Eight Shows A Week. You Have No Life. Going To A Punk Rock Club - Or Whatever The Music Was At That Time - Would Not Have Been On My Agenda.

Actors Are Actually Very Supportive Of Each Other.

Certainly As Actors, And Maybe As Directors, You've Got To Hang On To Something Childlike. You've Got To Know What Play Is. I Haven't Worked With Mike Leigh, But I Know Him Very Well And There's Something Open In His Eyes About What's In Front Of Him. And The Same Is True Of Alfonso In A Mexican, Mad Way. There's An Enthusiastic Response To Something. Neil Jordan, The Same, When He Gets Excited . You Just Want To Know There's A Human Being In There.

One Of The Most, In A Weird Way, Encouraging Things A Director Can Say To An Actor - I Know This As An Actor - Is When You Ask Them A Question, They Say, I Don't Know - 'cause It Means There's Some Space There For You To Find Out. And It Means That There's Going To Be A Process.

Acting Is Mostly About Listening. If You Just Focus In On What The Other Person Is Saying, Acting Takes Care Of Itself To Quite A Large Extent.