I Get Plenty Of Time To Re-engage

Best Ever Was Filming In Barcelona Last Year, And I Had A Couple Of Scenes With De Niro. He's A Very Shy Man. Speaks So Quietly That People Tend To Bend Down And Adopt The Same Tone, Almost The Same Voice, Whenever They Talk To Him - Watching, You'd Think Someone's Offering To Carry Out A Hit For Him When They're Just Offering Him A Cup Of Coffee.

They Know You're Not Alfred Hitchcock, But You Need To Be Enough Alfred Hitchcock For Them Not To Be Bothered By It. That's A Reassuring Thing.

I Was A Fan Of Hitchcock, But More Importantly Than That, He Is Such An Inscrutable Man, And A Very Carefully Inscrutable Man. He Apparently Was Blank-faced With A Calm And Controlled Presence. I Was Immediately Anxious And Thought, 'how Am I Going To Get Behind That?'

I Do Always Feel Very Proud And Flattered By Being Asked To Be A Part Of American Productions Playing American Characters.

We're Interested By Public Personas And Private Personas, Otherwise We Wouldn't Put On With Actors Rambling On With The Same Kind Of Stuff, Over And Over Again, Saying Variations Of The Same Thing. I'm Always Amazed By How Fascinated People Still Are By Actors Because It's The Same Version Of Events That Actors Describe, All The Time.