I think you have to find the humanity in the character and then the deterioration is a part of the process - the journey of the character. It's like playing King Lear. You can start off as a nice old man who finishes up crazy.

Some people would say I've made it now.

I would love to direct a feature and have Robert Connolly produce it. That would be really fab.

I do regard myself as very lucky.

Id love to work with the people who really got the film industry going again through the 70s: Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Fred Schepisi.

I'm becoming a frustrated director, I think, in an actor's body.

I'll never forget anything about Middle Earth. That's part of my memory now so I won't miss anything.