I Think It Will Be, As Always,

I Would Absolutely Like To Play More Leading Roles. There’s No Philosophy - Well, The Only Philosophy, I Suppose, Is To Try And Do Different Things.

I Still Don't Feel I Know Hitchcock At All. I Find That The More One Looks, The More Elusive He Becomes. But My Admiration For Hitchcock The Filmmaker Remains Undiminished. He Is A Giant Of The Cinema And The Darkness In Him Informs His Cinematic Language. You Can't Separate One From The Other.

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.

You're Playing A Character In A Drama Who Happens To Be Based On Someone Who Existed. It's Never Going To 'be' That Person, But It's Based On Someone Well-known, And You Want To Create Enough Of That Person For It Not To Be A Distraction.

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.