Vancouver Sun
"Well, for better or for worse, there is very little preparation in TV. That is just the nature of the way it is made. I get a script only - usually, 48 hours, sometimes less - before we start to shoot. In those 48 hours, we're shooting the last day of the previous one. So for all the actors and the technicians and designers and so on, I need to be speedy and possess a quickness for an improvisational - I don't mean improvising - dialogue. I mean, the ability to find your feet quickly and make decisions quickly is absolutely of the essence. There's no sitting about for days discussing motivation.
The preparation is very scant."
On his plan to research the role of Dr. House:
"Before the show started, I wanted to spend time in an American hospital because a British person's experience of health care is so different. It's almost as if we have our hearts on the right side and our lungs are in our knees. I arranged to go and spend time in a hospital in Chicago. But in the end - even that, even before the pilot - that turned out not to be possible. You need to get here. You start shooting. I wish I could say I had some fascinating psychological process, but I basically just put on the sneakers and go."
On playing the same character for eight years:
"It's not the playing of the character over and over again. There are few things that are so deliciously enjoyable you want to do them for 16 hours a day, every day, including sex and fine dining. You want a break. sometimes it can get overwhelming.
There's the volume of it, the fact it keeps coming and you don't see (an end), unlike a film or a play. It feels like whatever you do, whatever problem you solve, there's another one. We're on a sort of conveyor belt. But everybody feels that, doing every job.
There's nothing particular to me or to us about it."
The preparation is very scant."
On his plan to research the role of Dr. House:
"Before the show started, I wanted to spend time in an American hospital because a British person's experience of health care is so different. It's almost as if we have our hearts on the right side and our lungs are in our knees. I arranged to go and spend time in a hospital in Chicago. But in the end - even that, even before the pilot - that turned out not to be possible. You need to get here. You start shooting. I wish I could say I had some fascinating psychological process, but I basically just put on the sneakers and go."
On playing the same character for eight years:
"It's not the playing of the character over and over again. There are few things that are so deliciously enjoyable you want to do them for 16 hours a day, every day, including sex and fine dining. You want a break. sometimes it can get overwhelming.
There's the volume of it, the fact it keeps coming and you don't see (an end), unlike a film or a play. It feels like whatever you do, whatever problem you solve, there's another one. We're on a sort of conveyor belt. But everybody feels that, doing every job.
There's nothing particular to me or to us about it."
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