You Can't Deny Reality Just Because You

The Script For 'infamous' Was So Poised Between Tragedy And Comedy. It's A Dream Part. One Reads Those Scripts With A Sense Of Melancholia. When You Read A Script That Good I Remember Thinking, 'oh, This Script Is Too Good. They'll Never Give It To Me.'

Hitchcock's Got A Very Interesting Voice; It's A Very Controlled, Measured Rhythm That's Quite Slow And, In That Sense, Also Felt Quite Controlling In Its Pace. He Retained Something From His Childhood, That London Sound, As Well As Adopting Some Of The L.a. Sounds... All Of This Helps You Create The Character.

I Still Don't Feel I Know Hitchcock At All. I Find That The More One Looks, The More Elusive He Becomes. But My Admiration For Hitchcock The Filmmaker Remains Undiminished. He Is A Giant Of The Cinema And The Darkness In Him Informs His Cinematic Language. You Can't Separate One From The Other.

They Seem Much Rarer Now, Those Auteur Films That Come Out Of A Director's Imagination And Are Elliptical And Hermetic. All Those Films That Got Me Into Independent Cinema When I Was Watching It Seem Thin On The Ground.

You Always Get Told How Important The Premiere And Doing The Press Is, But I Have Suspicions.