I Teach For The Book Trust, Which

I Often Get Sent Scripts About Little Men In Big Situations. There's A Comic Element To It, Which Is Forces Stacked Against This Little Guy, And How Is He Going To Defeat Them?

It's Always Very Strange To Have Your Life Dramatized Because It Never Happens Like That. Things Will Be Different.

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.

But I Think The Children Of Actors Share A Certain Pragmatic Approach. One Is Denied Some Of That 'running Away With The Circus' Element Of Being An Actor.

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.