Forget Trying To Be Sexy. That's Just

Something Like Shakespeare In Love, Which Became Such An Established Hit That It Now Seems Like A Foregone Conclusion... But It Really Wasn't. The Script Was Around For A Very, Very Long Time And Had People Chickening Out All The Time.

There's No Point In It Unless It's A Story That You Really Want To Tell. It's A Nebulous Job. Unless You're Doing It Well, You're Not Doing Anything. And There Are A Few Of Those. It's Perfectly Possible To Be A Passenger On A Film Set Because If Somebody Else Has Written It, You Can Make Nothing Of That Role And That's Exactly What Bad Directors Do.

I Can't Bring You Absolute Truth In The Detailed Factual Sense. All I Can Do Is Bring You An Interpretation As I Understand It. That's All You Can Ever Get From An Actor.

I Think England Has Served Me Very Well. I Like Living In London For The Reasons I Gave. I Have Absolutely No Intentions Of Cutting Those Ties. There Is Absolutely No Reason To Do So. Certainly Not, So That I Can Have A Swimming Pool And A Palm Tree.

What Infuriates Me Is That In America Violence Is Judged In Context, Whereas Language Is Not. So With Language There Is An Arithmetic That Says: One F*** Is A Pg 13, Two F***s Is An R. They Don't Say: One Bullet Through One Head Is A Pg 13, Two Bullets Through More Than Two Heads Is An R.