Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn't there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can't.

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.

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 always something about the villains that I'm able to play, quote unquote, that isn't villainous.

It's Sir Ben. I've not been a Mister for two years.

That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.

But filming is good for you, because the crew isn't allowed to laugh. You can't get addicted to getting the laugh.