If You Could Build A House On

My Idea Of A Real Treat Is Magic Mountain Without Standing In Line.

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.

Film Has To Be Reflecting The World That We Live In, And That's All You Want To Be A Part Of. Actors Inhabit The Same Planet As Everyone Else. It's A Weird Thing That Happens When You're An Actor Because People Hold You Up Because You Somehow Embody In Parts Groups Of People Or People's Hopes Or Something.

I Have Every Sympathy For Writers. It's A Mystery To Me What They Do. I Can Edit. I Can Cross Out And Say, 'i'm Not Saying That' Or, 'how About We Move This To Here? Wouldn't That Make That Bit Of The Story Better?' But Where Any Of It Comes From Is Beyond Me. I Will Never Write A Play Or A Novel.

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.