I Have Almost No Memory Of Them

Comedy - Particularly The Frothy And Frivolous - Is Notoriously Neglected By Festivals And Awards. But It's Bloody Hard To Get Right.

Certainly, From Where I Stand, I'm Not A Specialist In Wildly Different Walks And Voices. But I Find As Much Variation And Nuance As What Satisfies Me In What I Do. So, I Don't Find This Particularly Different. He Has His Own Peculiarities. You're Probably Talking About A Cluster Of Englishmen In Suits But I've Done Quite A Big Cluster Of Guys Not In Suits As Well, Which I've Occupied Myself With. So, I Don't Find That This Is The One That Stands Out.

I Would Rather Five People Knew My Work And Thought It Was Good Work Than Five Million Knew Me And Were Indifferent.

It Does Help To Actually Realize That However Stunning The Person Who Is, You Know, Fluttering Eyelashes At You, She Doesn't Do Anything To Match Up To Your Wife.

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.