I'm Physically Completely Mal-coordinated. My Best Friend

I Spent A Lot Of Time With A Real Detective, A Lady Detective Inspector Who Was The Only Female Detective Inspector In The Whole Of East London. She And I Hung Out A Lot. She Showed Me What She Did And I Spent Time With Her. So, [she Was] A Lot Of The Inspiration For The Way I Dressed And Sometimes The Dialogue In Those Interview Scenes Where We're Cross Examining And Questioning The Youths And Trying To Get A Confession Out Of Them.

Good People Can Do Terrible Things, And That's What Life Is All About, The Complexities And Grey Areas. And Often Characters Aren't Written That Way In Movies, Especially Characters For Women. So You End Up Being Either One Thing Or The Other.

The Ratings Thing Is The Real Issue. It Really Hurts Movies. For Example, In Redbelt, I Smoked. The Whole Plot Of My Character Was Based On The Fact That I Was A Smoker. And Then They Discovered That Just By Having Someone Smoking In The Movie, It Immediately Makes The Rating An R. So They Had To Cut Out Every Shot Where I Had A Cigarette In My Hand And It Totally Affected The Performance. That Was Very Frustrating To David Mamet As Well. I Can Remember Him Saying, "it's A Nightmare."

I've Only Half-admitted I'm A Professional. I Know I Am, I've Paid My Dues, But One Of The Things I Could Do Better When I'm Acting Is To Really Be Rigorous And To Think I Know How To Do It. To Use My Brain.

The Harder The Circumstances Under Which You're Making A Movie, Generally The Better The Friends You Make. You're Far Away From Home And So You're Kind Of Lonely, And You End Up All Gravitating Towards Each Other And The Bar Every Night. It Tends To Be Inversely Proportionate To The Comfort Level On The Movie, How Close You Become To Everybody.