I'll Be Your Friend So Long As

I Think It Helps To Get A Film Made Because People Who Put Money In Are Nervous. They Like To Have Something Recognisable Enough To Make Them Secure That There's A Pattern There - That Someone Else Put Their Money Into Something Like This And Made It Back.

It's An Unknown Quantity. It's Actually Almost A Cliché To Say It, How Hard Comedy Is. What's That Famous Quote? "dying Is Easy, Comedy's Hard." I Think The Broader It Gets, If You Miss By A Millimetre, You've Missed Completely. It's A Very Hard Thing To Do.

I Do Think I'm A Character Actor.

Certainly, From Where I Stand, I'm Not A Specialist In Wildly Different Walks And Voices. But I Find As Much Variation And Nuance As What Satisfies Me In What I Do. So, I Don't Find This Particularly Different. He Has His Own Peculiarities. You're Probably Talking About A Cluster Of Englishmen In Suits But I've Done Quite A Big Cluster Of Guys Not In Suits As Well, Which I've Occupied Myself With. So, I Don't Find That This Is The One That Stands Out.

Whenever You Take On Playing A Villain, He Has To Cease To Be A Villain To You. If You Judge This Man By His Time, He's Doing Very Little Wrong.