I've Got To Tell You, I've Played

Certainly For My Father, There Were Great Times, Good Times, Not-so-good Times. He Might Be Shooting A Fellini Film For Six Months, Then Not Working For Two Months. I'm Used To That Dynamic.

Particularly [alfred] Hitchcock, Who Takes His Time With Everything He Says. There's A Controlling Way In How He Speaks Because He Takes His Time To Finish All His Sentences.

There's Something In The Rhythm And Roll Of It That Is Connected To The Way Hitchcock Thinks And Moves. Then There Is Everything He Ingested - The Cigar Smoking And Drinking That's Imprinted On His Voice.

But I Think The Children Of Actors Share A Certain Pragmatic Approach. One Is Denied Some Of That 'running Away With The Circus' Element Of Being An Actor.

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.