Sometimes it's right to do the wrong things and right now is one of those times.

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

The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.

As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.

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 never went to drama school. I went straight into the theater. We had the most extraordinary voice teacher. I worked with her when I was starting out in my career. How to place my voice from a very relaxed position was all wonderfully reminiscent of going back to the basics. But I always like to do that with any role that I do, to dismantle it and put it all back together again.

I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.