There Are Some Days When You Don't

I'd Been Depressed Before, Of Course. But I'm Talking About Really Depressed. Not Just Feeling A Bit Down Or Sad, A Depression That Has Something To Do With Biorhythms. I'm Talking About The Kind Of Depressed That Floats In Upon You Like A Fog. You Can Feel It Coming And You Can See Where It Is Going To Take You But You Are Powerless, Utterly Powerless To Stop It. I Know Now.

Some Things Are Just Really Difficult To Do. That's What I Find Hard. I Usually Can Find A Way To Do A Character To Make It Real And Work. But Sometimes It's A Struggle Sustaining That, Because There's Such A Level Of Personal Involvement And Personal, Physical, And Emotional Distraughtness.

My Mum Always Told Me I Was Precious, While My Dad Always Told Me I Was Worthless. I Think That's A Good Grounding For A Balanced Life.

I Actually Find In America, There's A Slight Snobbery About Actors Who Go Back And Forth Between Big Heavy Dramas And Popcorn Fare. That Always Intrigues Me, Because That Doesn't Exist In The Same Way In Britain. And I Imagine It Would Be Worse. In Terms Of The Sort Of Class, And The Sort Of Snobby, Slightly On The Back-foot Thing Britain Has. But It's Much More Prevalent In America. I'm Really Intrigued By It. I Don't Know Why That Is. But I'm Aiming To Break Down Those Barriers By Being In A Shakespeare Film And A Smurfs Film Within Six Months Of Each Other.

It's Really Rare For Film Directors To Be That Interested In Things Other Than Themselves.