If You Take A Loud Pride In

I Want People To Leave The Cinema Feeling That Something's Been Confirmed For Them About Life.

I Always Say To Anybody Who's Going Over To America For The First Time, 'whatever You Do, Go And See A Popular Mainstream Film With A Big Audience.' Because People Shout Out. You Never Get That In Britain. Everybody's So Quiet, Scared To Laugh. It's Like Being In Church.

When You Have Children Your Own Hypocrisy Becomes More Apparent Because You're Telling Them How To Behave, And You're Not Behaving Like That Yourself. So It Obliges One To Really Go In And Try To Look At Why There Is A Huge Gulf Between How One Knows One Wants To Behave And How One Actually Does Behave.

What You Do Is Take The Power [popularity] Gives You - Which Is Very Temporary And Minor But Significant - And Use It. The Danger Is That You Use It On A Vanity Project That No One Wants To Watch.

Brian Cox Is The Nicest Guy, But He's So Arrogant.