I Think Romeo And Juliet Is Uplifting.

Working In Film, If You Work With Great Directors, You Learn That After Every Take You Must Let Go. Sitting With My Wife At The Academy Awards, We Both Let The Moment Just Go.

You Don't Go To A Town To Present The Play And Have Applause At The End Of It, But That's Benign Conquest. It's A Glorious Way Of Exploring Other Landscapes And Other Cultures In A Very Life-affirming Way.

The Camera Does Not Like Acting. The Camera Is Only Interested In Filming Behaviour. So You Damn Well Learn Your Lines Until You Know Them Inside Out, While Standing On Your Head!

There Is So Much To Do On A Film Set. It Is An Extraordinarily Invigorating And Wonderful Place To Be, When Things Are Running Well.

The Environment Forces You To Be Utterly Dependent Between "action" And "cut" Because The Environment Is Perfect On Your Fellow Actor. So As An Acting Exercise, It's Absolutely Thrilling That The Focus That We Had To Bring To Each Other Echoed In Life, Echoed In Art. And When You Get That Parallel, It's Really Thrilling And It's Full Of Surprises, But It All Has A Logic.