When You Meet Women, Don't Pretend To

In The Studio System, Things Are Expected Of A Film. By The First, Second, Third Act, There's A Generic Language That Comes Out Of The More Commercial System.

News Reports Can Overwhelm Us. We Can Be Appalled, We Can Sympathise. But What Is Hard To Grasp Is The Sense That, At This Moment, People Are Working, Organising - Not Just At An Executive Level, But On The Floor, In The Warehouse. A Man Is Packing A Box Of Oral Rehydration Tablets; Maternity Kits Are Being Prepared; Education Kits Are Being Packed. And Somewhere, Tomorrow, Those Boxes Will Be Unpacked And A Child With Life-threatening Diarrhoea Will Be Saved, A Baby Will Be Born In More Hygienic Circumstances, A Girl Will Receive Her First Exercise Book And Her First Pencil.

I Don't Feel Particularly Comfortable About Actors Using Whatever Power They May Have To Push Their Beliefs, Unless They're Extremely Well Informed.

I Have A Lot Of Stuff I Want To Talk About And Offer Up. It Would Be Odd Not To Have Ideas About Something.

I Feel There's So Much Still To Learn About Acting. But There Is Some Magic In The Capturing Of Performance And In The Process Of Editing A Performance. The Psychology Of Human Beings And What's Coming Through The Face... That Fascinates Me.