I do believe female directors, as well as our female writer, can bring out male vulnerability that some men can't because they can't face it.

I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.

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.

I hope I'm able to achieve more on camera through stillness, through focus, through being quite careful to do less on every take, rather than more. So I'm reducing, rather than adding. Which hopefully is a good exercise. That's what I'd like to do.

I think that Shakespeare had his male side and his female side extremely well developed. And this was a great quality of the Elizabethan, all-around Renaissance man. They were not afraid of their male side and their female side co-existing. This somewhere along the line got lost. And then it got misunderstood.

Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work.

I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives.