You Will Find Hardly Any Improvising On

I've Long Since Stopped Worrying About How I'm Portrayed In The Press Because Ultimately It's Not That Important. Everyone Who Knows Me Knows I Do What I Do With The Greatest Integrity.

When It Comes To Thinking About How A Character Talks, There Are Literary And Language Considerations. For Actors To Be Able To Differentiate Between Themselves And The Characters They Are Playing While At The Same Time Remain In Character And Spontaneous Requires A Sophisticated Combination Of Skills And Spirit.

I Mean, Artistic Processes Are All About Making Choices All The Time, And The Very Act Of Making A Choice Is The Distilling Down And The Getting To The Core Of What It Is That You Care About And What You Want To Say, Really.

I Discover What My Film Is By Embarking On The Journey Of Making It.

I Hate Period Films - And There Are Plenty Of Them - Where They Say, "let's Not Do Contemporary Language Because The Audience Won't Understand It;" "let's Not Make The Girls Wear Corsets, Because It's Not Sexy" And All That Sort Of Thing. Gradually It Disintegrates Into A No Man's Land: You Don't Really Believe It's A Period Scene And It Doesn't Feel Like It's Now Because It's Not Now. You Don't Feel It's Quite Real And You Don't Believe In It.