I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.
Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.
There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.
I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.
Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.
I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face.
I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.
In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research.
I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.
