It Is Better For Me

With Narration, You Have To Be Very Accurate With Your Voice. It's A Good Exercise To Do.

If The Director Wishes To Print It, Then You Have A Series Of Choices, Maybe Millions Of Choices Within That Minute-and-a-half, Or 80 Seconds, Or 2 Minutes Or However Long Or Short The Take Is, You Have All Those Choices Committed To Celluloid. I Find That Absolutely Thrilling.

I Don't Want To Be Like The Actor Who Rehearses Everything In The Bathroom, Then Comes To The Set And Carries On Completely Uninterrupted While The Other Actors Tiptoe Away. I'm So Dependent On Reacting To The Other Actors On The Set, And To The Director. I'm Very Responsive. I React. And I Treasure The Energy That Reaction Gives. I Feed Off That And Work Off That. I Don't Like To Be Too Prepared, No. However We Define Too Prepared, If I Feel It's Getting That Way, Then I'll Back Off. My Line-learning Is Very Special. I Like To Learn The Dialogue Of The Whole Film Before I Arrive.

What Is Chess, Do You Think? Those Who Play For Fun Or Not At All Dismiss It As A Game. The Ones Who Devote Their Lives To It For The Most Part Insist That It's A Science. It's Neither. Bobby Fischer Got Underneath It Like No One Before And Found At Its Center, Art.

If I Were To Play Somebody Who Ran A Fish And Chip Shop, I Would Not Work In A Fish And Chip Shop For Three Months. Staring At Chips Is Not Going To Help Me In My Performance.