All I Want To See From An

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.

My Definition Of Palatable Might Be Slightly Different From Yours.

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.

There's, Like, Marks Next To An Actor's Name Or Something, And Boy Does That Go Up And Down! Somewhere In There, Which Always Causes My Mate Miss Ruby Wax Great Hilarity, I Was Offered A Biopic Of Frank Sinatra. Even I Knew That Was A Bad Idea! They'll Throw Anything At You At Certain Times. So, You Know, To Thine Own Self Be True.

All I Want To See From An Actor Is The Intensity And Accuracy Of Their Listening.