I think what medical training does is it gives you the language, the tools to look up facts. I think medical training gives you a sense of how to approach a problem, how to look at symptoms and go down the list of what it might be.
People who can pull you in and take you on a journey, as opposed to simply adding flash. Again, that feels very clinical, and I don't respond to that the way I used to.
Sometimes you just hit that form and everything goes in; you get chances and you're more ruthless with them, more clinical.
Writing music is very, very clinical. You just sit down at a piano, map out a theme and when all the technicalities come together, out pours the music.
There are so many interpretations that this film [The Lobster] could be approached from. But Yorgos [Lanthimos] is so specifically minded, he's so clinical in his direction of the film.
I'm trying to make the box, trying to be more ruthless, more clinical, and trying to decide games.
People say you must be pragmatic, more clinical. More pragmatic than me? I'm sorry.
A lot of times you'll go into a doctor's office and want a kind, non-clinical approach from the physician. Doesn't usually happen.
The artist must be like a heart surgeon. He must approach something with sympathy, but with a sort of coldness and work and work until he finds some kind of perfection in his work. You can't have blood splashing all over the place. Things must be done very cleanly.
