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Lots Of People There Seemed To Be In Denial, In Absolute Denial, Of Death - Everybody's Pretending That Death Doesn't Happen In L.a.; If You Do Enough Exercise And Take Enough Wheatgrass And Have Your Pill Every Day, You Might Not Die.

It's Very Difficult To Find The Time Or The Money For People To Organize Rehearsals For Some Movies. It Staggers Me How Little Preparation Often Goes Into These Scenes Which Are Difficult And Complicated. You Think, "god, It's Crazy. I've Never Met This Person Before And Here I Am Having To Work At How To Do A Whole Performance On The Set." It Was Great To Have A Few Days Of Just Talking To Michael [caine] And Daniel [barber] And Thinking About The Characters And The Relationship Between Them Before We Started Shooting.

I Already Feel A Bit Annoyed At Myself For Writing Screenplays. It's A Bit, I Don't Know, Model-singer-dancer-actress That Went To A Posh School. There's Something Too Weirdly Predictable About It.

I'm A Dual Citizen, As Are My Husband And Children. We Have Got Eight Passports Between Us; We're Weighed Down By Them Whenever We Go Anywhere.

Accents Are Very Tangible, Blessedly, And If You Have To Do One, It's A Way Of Getting Into Character. I Can Read It Through A Few Times And Pretend I Know What I'm Doing!