Quotes About Intensity

When I do work, I get so much done in such a concentrated time that once I'm through a series, I'm so drained I don't want to get near the camera.

I like to work fast and I like to work intensively.

It's rare that I come across actors who are willing to work as hard on the material as I am

One thing I've never been accused of is slowly coming into something. I always go full on (and ask) "Now how do we make this work?"

I'm a pretty intense person. And I don't know if intense is fun. I put myself through the wringer. That's just how I work.

When I was filming the death scene [in Inglourious Basterds], and I'm killing somebody, I had to work myself up.

I get a little too obsessive with work.

As an actor, you go through life thinking "This stop is the last stop," so you just put your heart and soul into everything and do your best work.

With acting, you might have a month of very intense work, but youve got a lot of downtime as well.

Not all of our work is dark, but when we are working on a dark project, we really tend to go there.

Tantra is for the desperate. Unless you've really experienced pain and suffering, tantra won't work. Unless you've really experienced exultation and ecstasy, tantra won't work.

Using the energy in a scene can really cut the fat off of something and streamline it. It can make it work for you and activate it for you in a way.

I was having such a hard time when I made Sylvia. I gave everything I had for that role. It's one or two or three things I'm most proud of in terms of my work. But it was very dark.

Namby-pamby little routines that don't speed up your heartbeat and make you sweat aren't worth your while.

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

I'm the kind of person [who] when I'm doing a play, and even when I'm working, I don't do anything else. When I'm working, I just work.

In every fight the strategy is to baptize and take their soul - that's always the strategy.

A fight involves the emotion, the strategy of combat. There are many factors connected to a fight.

The minute you get in a five-game series, you start thinking strategy, you start thinking about adjustments. Single elimination, you've got to go all out, all-in. I think that affects the coaching, it affects the playing, it affects the psyche going into the game.

When you make a movie like 'Straw Dogs,' your goal is to have people's eyes remain glued to the screen. It serves you no purpose to turn away from the screen.

I like alphas. I like bad boys. I like a guy with a protective streak.

Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.

All of the courses that run through real streets are very demanding. There is no room for error, no shoulders to lean on. If you go off the road, you're into somebody's shop-window or front porch.

I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.