I Don't Know If There's A Problem

But This Is Where You Get All The Market Research And Things Get In Danger Of Becoming Formulaic, And Where You Depend On Brands And Getting Recognised Actors. It's The Thing That Precludes Risk Very Often, Otherwise Everyone Would Be Avant-garde All Over The Place.

Forget Trying To Be Sexy. That's Just Gruesome.

Directors Don't Get To See Other Directors At Work - They're The Only One On The Set. I've Met Directors Who've Asked Me What Another Filmmaker Is Like. So, There's Probably Nobody Better Placed To Make All The Comparisons And To Pick Up Stuff Than An Actor.

My Parents And Grandparents Have Always Been Engaged In Teaching Or The Medical Profession Or The Priesthood, So I've Sort Of Grown Up With A Sense Of Complicity In The Lives Of Other People, So There's No Virtue In That; It's The Way One Is Raised.

If I'd Loved My Chemistry Teacher And My Maths Teacher, Goodness Knows What Direction My Life Might Have Gone In. I Remember There Was A Primary School Teacher Who Really Woke Me Up To The Joys Of School For About One Year When I Was Ten. He Made Me Interested In Things I Would Otherwise Not Have Been Interested In - Because He Was A Brilliant Teacher. He Was Instrumental In Making Me Think Learning Was Quite Exciting.