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Working In Film, If You Work With Great Directors, You Learn That After Every Take You Must Let Go. Sitting With My Wife At The Academy Awards, We Both Let The Moment Just Go.

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.

I Don't Want To Be Like The Actor Who Rehearses Everything In The Bathroom, Then Comes To The Set And Carries On Completely Uninterrupted While The Other Actors Tiptoe Away. I'm So Dependent On Reacting To The Other Actors On The Set, And To The Director. I'm Very Responsive. I React. And I Treasure The Energy That Reaction Gives. I Feed Off That And Work Off That. I Don't Like To Be Too Prepared, No. However We Define Too Prepared, If I Feel It's Getting That Way, Then I'll Back Off. My Line-learning Is Very Special. I Like To Learn The Dialogue Of The Whole Film Before I Arrive.

I've Never Had To Turn My Hand To Anything For Monetary Gain, Other Than Pretending To Be Somebody Else. I'm Deeply Fortunate.

If The Director Wishes To Print It, Then You Have A Series Of Choices, Maybe Millions Of Choices Within That Minute-and-a-half, Or 80 Seconds, Or 2 Minutes Or However Long Or Short The Take Is, You Have All Those Choices Committed To Celluloid. I Find That Absolutely Thrilling.