Firth - All Dodgy 'tache And Frantic

My Parents And Grandparents Have Always Been Engaged In Teaching Or The Medical Profession Or The Priesthood, So I've Sort Of Grown Up With A Sense Of Complicity In The Lives Of Other People, So There's No Virtue In That; It's The Way One Is Raised.

If I Were To Write A Book About The Progress Of Getting To A Third Film, It Would Be A Long One.

To Work Effectively In A Film, You Have To Repeat And Work Consistently. Basically, You Shoot A Big Master Then You Do Close-ups. You're Supposed To Be In The Same Moment, The Same 30-second Moment, For A Day.

I've Actually Heard People Protesting Furiously About Straight Male Costume People As Well. It's Not Universal And There Are Examples That Break The Mould All Over The Place. In My Experience, It's More Prevalent In The Uk Than In America.

It Was Mainly To Do With Helen Hunt, To Be Honest. That's What Drew My Attention To It. I Was Interested In The Fact That She Was Going To Be Directing. I'd Never Met Her But She Projects A Degree Of Intelligence And It Was Convincing T Me That She'd Be Able To Handle This Sort Of Material Very Well.