I'm Open To Whatever People Want To

We Are All From Different Cultures. Heath's [ledger] Australian, Really. I'm From Here. Ang's [lee] From China. But I Think Ang Gets Very Close In Preproduction And Rehearsals. And Then He Allows His Actors - I Don't Think Scared Of Actors, But I Think He's Scared Of Getting In On The Scenes He's Watching. The Space He's Watching. So He Just Totally Disconnects From You While You're Shooting.

I Love Storytelling, You Know, Beyond Anything. I Love A Great Story Beyond A Great Performance. Storytelling Is About What We All Do Together And How We Collaborate Together. A Performance Can Be A Collaboration In Ways, But Oftentimes It's One Individual Thing.

There's No Shame In Somebody Who Doesn't Necessarily Do That Job Knowing A Little Bit More In That Instance Than You Might Know About Your Own Job, You Know, And I Think That Is Where Movies Are Such A Collaborative Art Form.

Working With Robert, Robert [elswit] Is A Storyteller. He's Not A Cinematographer, He's A Storyteller. And To Me, That's The Graduation I Hope To Get To In My Profession. That I'm Not Just An Actor, I'm A Storyteller. And I Think That Takes A Long Time In, When You Have One Job On A Movie Set. Makeup Artists, Actor, Whatever. To Graduate From Just That To Storyteller.

I Had Not Spent A Ton Of Time Around Animals As A Kid.