In Cinema, The Leading Player Is The

I Want To Play A Man In Uniform. I've Got Tremendous Respect For That Life That They Lead. We Know So Little About It. It's Never Discussed Or Talked About, When They Come Back From Battle. I Want To Examine The Choices That Have To Be Made In Those Terrible Times. [...] I'll Get To Wear A Uniform.

They're A Very Strange Lot Actors, Very Strange People.

I Think I'm More Bonded, Emotionally And In A Craft Sense, To Films That Tell Extraordinary Stories About Extraordinary Destinies.

My Wife And I Have Now Founded Lavender Pictures. If One Has One's Own Company, There Are Very Few Surprises, But There's Still The Actual Thrill Of Trying To Get These Projects Off The Ground. We're Meeting With Some Measure Of Success. Always, Now And At Any Stage Of My Career, I'm Open To Ambush, But There Have Been The Most Extraordinary Set Of Coincidences, Which Continues Through My Journey, And I Find It Thrilling. Often, Out Of Left Field And Quite Randomly, Comes A Project And I Think, "my God, There You Are!" It's Quite Beautiful, Really.

In Order To Inhabit A Villain, You Mustn't Care What The Audience Think Of You. That's Not Why You Are There. You Mustn't Care For A Second Whether The Audience Likes You Or Dislikes You. Your Villain Has To Be Way Beyond That.