I Have Some Close Friends I Keep

I Was Really Not Familiar At All With Edward Snowden. I Like To Get That Right Out Of The Way And Really Learned Most Of What I Know From Oliver's [stones] Script.

An Actor Has To Be Very, Very Careful, As One Of The Most Wonderful Props - And Actors Love Props - Is A Cigarette. There's So Much To Do With It: You Can Bring It Up To Your Face, Play With The Smoke. It's Just The Greatest - Ever Since I Was 16 And In Acting School In England, I've Been Playing Around With Cigarettes.

You Have This Certain About Of Responsibility To Play A Fictitious Character And You Have A Script That's Guiding You And The Other Information Of The Custom Department's Choices, And The Set Department, "where Are You," And All Those Other Pieces Of Information But You Have To Cull From Your Imagination The Answer To All The Unasked Questions. And With A Real Person, There's Someone To Get That Information From, Perhaps.

I Definitely Consider Myself A Method Actor, Because Of My Training. I Might Dispute What People Consider A Method Actor To Be. For My Money, A Method Actor Is An Actor Who Has A Technique. That Has A Method. And Not One Method, But Whatever Might Be Required. So A Method Actor Is Always Learning.

That's Probably The Biggest Secret Of Acting: If The Actor Believes It Themselves, They Can Make You Believe It.