I Even Feel Grateful For The Failures.

I Learn The Lines As Soon As I Can And Then The Challenge Really, For Filming, Is To Show Up And Be There And Respond To What's Around You. That's Where The Gold Dust Is. It's Really Strange, No Amount Of Preparation Will Help You With The Magic Of Spontaneity On The Day [of Filming].

Every Villain Is A Hero In His Own Mind.

I Think A Healthy Connection With The Natural World Actually Makes Us More Human.

I Have A Little Office In My House And It Is An Absolute Pigsty But I Know Exactly Where Everything Is And There Are Little Things Stuck All Over The Walls, And Papers In In-trays And Files I Have Saved On My Computer And Playlists I Have Made On My Itunes - Things That Take Me To A Place That I Think Is Appropriate.

I Think That Is So Interesting. It Is Le Carré. There Must Be So Much Of Him When He Was Younger. He's An Interesting Character. I Don't Want To Say The Word "passive" Because There Is Something Very Active About The Way He Is Passive, If That Makes Any Sense: The Nature Of His Watching And His Listening Is Active. It Is Always So Alive Because He Is, Essentially, A Spy.