Only When You Are Relaxed Can You

I Fell In Love Again (laughs).

I Did This Super-8 Film At Art School Called Tissues, This Black Comedy About A Family Whose Father Has Been Arrested For Child Molestation. I Was Absolutely Thrilled By Every Inch Of It, And Would Throw My Projector In The Back Of My Car And Show It To Anybody Who Would Watch It.

I Took Four Years Off After 'in The Cut' Because I Wanted To See Who I'd Be Without Work. I Even Tried Being A Hermit In The Wilderness In New Zealand. I Stayed In A Warden's Hut Two-and-a-half Hours Off The Routeburn Track Through The Fjords On The South Island. It Was Early Winter, So There Was No Electricity Or Running Water.

I Had This Spooky Psychological Thing About 'the Piano' Before It Began, Which Was How Everybody Was Going To Go Nuts On The Set. Because A Film Tends To Set Up The Way People Are Going To Behave.

Performers Are So Vulnerable. They're Frightened Of Humiliation, Sure Their Work Will Be Crap. I Try To Make An Environment Where It's Warm, Where It's Ok To Fail - A Kind Of Home, I Suppose.