But Filming Is Good For You, Because

My Wife And I Have Now Founded Lavender Pictures. If One Has One's Own Company, There Are Very Few Surprises, But There's Still The Actual Thrill Of Trying To Get These Projects Off The Ground. We're Meeting With Some Measure Of Success. Always, Now And At Any Stage Of My Career, I'm Open To Ambush, But There Have Been The Most Extraordinary Set Of Coincidences, Which Continues Through My Journey, And I Find It Thrilling. Often, Out Of Left Field And Quite Randomly, Comes A Project And I Think, "my God, There You Are!" It's Quite Beautiful, Really.

They're A Very Strange Lot Actors, Very Strange People.

Shakespeare Villains Were Extraordinary. Macbeth, Iago, Richard Iii... They're So Richly Layered That A British Actor Would Find It Almost Impossible To Create A Two-dimensional Villain, If He's Explored In His Early Years Or Continues To Explore His Shakespearean Heritage. You Can Almost Not Judge Them, If They're Played Really Well.

Movie Magic Is Movie Magic And Acting Magic Is Acting Magic.

I Love Storytelling. If You Strip All The Bits Away, What You'll Find At The Center Is A Storyteller. As I Warm To My Career And Love It More, I Have A Sense That Storytelling Is Healing, In Many Ways. You Can Reach An Audience And Heal, And By Heal, I Mean Entertain And Provoke. It's A Wonderful Life.