I Want To Swim In

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.

I Approach Every Part I'm Asked To Do And Decide To Do From Exactly The Same Angle: Who Is This Person, What Does He Want, How Does He Attempt To Get It, And What Happens To Him When He Doesn't Get It, Or If He Does?

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.

So You Can't Judge The Character You're Playing Ever.

I Do Take My Work Seriously And The Way To Do That Is Not To Take Yourself Too Seriously.