I Think That Most Actors Attempt To

If One Is Going To Offer Children Stories That Underneath The Story Must Be Something That Will Inform, Stimulate And Guide, I Love To Be On Board. I Think Anything That Resonates With History, As Does The Jungle Book And Watership Down, Reflects Patterns Of Behavior, Power Struggles, Deprivation, Migration, Survival, Joy, Love, Betrayal, And All Of These Things. It's Tragic That Children Are Encouraged To Ignore History. We Ignore History And Any Literature That Is Historically Based In History. Even Though Both Of Those Films Involved Animals, Of Course They Reflect Human Behavior.

The Camera Does Not Like Acting. The Camera Is Only Interested In Filming Behaviour. So You Damn Well Learn Your Lines Until You Know Them Inside Out, While Standing On Your Head!

I Want To Play A Man In Uniform. I've Got Tremendous Respect For That Life That They Lead. We Know So Little About It. It's Never Discussed Or Talked About, When They Come Back From Battle. I Want To Examine The Choices That Have To Be Made In Those Terrible Times. [...] I'll Get To Wear A Uniform.

If I Were To Play Somebody Who Ran A Fish And Chip Shop, I Would Not Work In A Fish And Chip Shop For Three Months. Staring At Chips Is Not Going To Help Me In My Performance.

I Think That You Can Fall Into Bad Habits With Comedy... It's A Tightrope To Stay True To The Character, True To The Irony, And Allow The Irony To Happen.