You have to love to put yourself in uncomfortable situations. People ask me all the time, do you stay in character and if so isn’t that uncomfortable? Don’t you want to get away from that character?

And I always say to them, I don’t want to get away from that character I want to get closer to that character. I want to put myself in the most uncompromising and uncomfortable situation I can.

You have to be masochist, you have to crave reality. you have to put yourself in a situation where you humiliate and embarrass yourself to achieve some sort of reality and you are around so many people who don’t understand it.

I remember Heath, as the Joker, would be in the corner talking to himself all day. You know? He’s alway in character. I love it, I absolutely love it.

I’m so glad I spent time with Heath because I believe in that. That’s the way to do it. But you have to understand, It’s hard for people to understand this. Your other castmates, and the crew and the people around you don’t understand what you are doing. Even though you are making a movie together, they still don’t understand what you are doing.