I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you`d come up with something exponentially better.
I don`t want to do an action movie, because I`ve acted in them, and they`re so boring to do, because they`re so technical. The headache of that is daunting. But, if it were an action movie with really interesting characters, how great would that be?
I don`t get over the wonder of it, and `The Last Samurai` was an extreme example of that. Every day when I went to the set, I couldn`t believe what I was seeing.
I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you`d come up with something exponentially better.
