I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father...

If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step toward it.

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.

Film has become such a central part of our culture now that I think sometimes too great a weight is placed upon it in terms of scrutiny and analysis. There's a lot of rather specious professorial stuff that swirls around films.

I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.

I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.

God knows, I haven't always been successful.