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One Key Element To Hitchcock Is The Drooping Jowl. That Was Crucial Because His Silhouette Is Crucial. There Is Something About His Silhouette That Became His Brand.

The Script For 'infamous' Was So Poised Between Tragedy And Comedy. It's A Dream Part. One Reads Those Scripts With A Sense Of Melancholia. When You Read A Script That Good I Remember Thinking, 'oh, This Script Is Too Good. They'll Never Give It To Me.'

When Working Abroad You Work Pretty Hard, But With Time Off, This Is The Greatest Job In The World. You Drive. You Explore Memphis, Or Wherever You've Landed, Or Go And See Dr John, Or The Californian Landscape. And, Yes, I've Had A Few Good Meals.

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?

There Is This Miraculous Thing I Heard Hugh Grant Talking About - The Thing About Screen Acting Is That You Can Read People's Thoughts. You Are Trying To Register Something Inside And Usually The Eyes In Cinema Are Where You Will Register That.