I've Had Loss In My Life, And

Quiet People, People Who Arent Given To Emotional Outbursts, People Who Are Economic With Words - Theyre Also Fun To Play, But You Find Yourself Needing A Laser Precision In Those Roles. Otherwise You Just Sort Of Stand Around, Looking Slightly Brain-dead. You Worry About Being Uninteresting.

You Can't Do Something That Is Morally Vacuous Or Dysfunctional And Then Write It Off Saying, 'it Wasn't My Film, I Was Just Doing A Job In It.'

You Have To Go Where The Good Writing Is.

My Parents Were Incredibly Inclusive.

It's Certainly True That I Was Brought Up In That British Amateur Tradition, The One Which Always Held That If You Were Reasonably Good At Cricket, Knew One Or Two Latin Texts And A Few Zingy Oscar Wilde Quotes For Dinner Parties, You Were Pretty Much Ready To Go And Run Some Outpost In Hindustan.