Quotes About Interpretation

I think it's always challenging to look at a script and make it your own while maintaining the sense of what the style of the show is.

Every role is challenging in its own way, but the most challenging roles are the ones that are badly written - then it's completely up to you to come up with something that is interesting to the story and myself as an actor.

When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.

In times of crisis the artist must rise to the challenge and try to make sense from the chaos.

I don't see a difference between the idea of what an actor does and what someone supposes a character actor is, really.

Every actor is a character actor.

Whether or not I am a 'character actor' or any other kind of actor, I really don't know. When people call me a 'character actor,' I fail to understand what it means.

What I've always tried to do, whether it's the NBA or baseball or golf, is be charged with getting the color.

I got sent some cheese once. I'm not sure if that was saying something about my act, or just because I like cheese.

People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make.

As an actor you make choices that are either right or wrong, and you find the ones that are right for you. As an understudy, the choices have been made, so you have to make those choices right. Going into the role, you can't really question it.

As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.

Inspiration is key for me in choosing characters.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

For me, the choreography always comes from the music.

No form of Christianity is absolutely and only true.

Many times, that's how people see Christian art or Christians making art: They see the art as having an agenda.

Doing cinema is not about watching yourself.

I have always said that the biggest difference between stage and cinema is that one has got close-ups.

There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema.

We can't keep thinking in a limited way about what cinema is. We still don't know what cinema is. Maybe cinema could only really apply to the past or the first 100 years, when people actually went to a theater to see a film, you see?

Most adaptations of plays I hate, because they don't envision something as cinema at all, you know?

For me, cinema's like a language - everyone has their own form of it.

One person's barbarity is another person's civilisation.