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My Wife And I Have Now Founded Lavender Pictures. If One Has One's Own Company, There Are Very Few Surprises, But There's Still The Actual Thrill Of Trying To Get These Projects Off The Ground. We're Meeting With Some Measure Of Success. Always, Now And At Any Stage Of My Career, I'm Open To Ambush, But There Have Been The Most Extraordinary Set Of Coincidences, Which Continues Through My Journey, And I Find It Thrilling. Often, Out Of Left Field And Quite Randomly, Comes A Project And I Think, "my God, There You Are!" It's Quite Beautiful, Really.

I Want To Play A Man In Uniform. I've Got Tremendous Respect For That Life That They Lead. We Know So Little About It. It's Never Discussed Or Talked About, When They Come Back From Battle. I Want To Examine The Choices That Have To Be Made In Those Terrible Times. [...] I'll Get To Wear A Uniform.

I Think That You Can Fall Into Bad Habits With Comedy... It's A Tightrope To Stay True To The Character, True To The Irony, And Allow The Irony To Happen.

With Narration, You Have To Be Very Accurate With Your Voice. It's A Good Exercise To Do.

When Attenborough Asked Me To Do Gandhi It Was Almost Like Stepping Off One Boat And Stepping On To Another, Even Though Both Boats Are Going At 60 Miles Per Hour.