The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership.
Helen MirrenAmericans are very good at animating voices. I don't know why. They have a freedom with them that we British actors find more difficult to get to.
Helen MirrenWriters can get very angry when an actor says, "I don't know, I don't feel very comfortable with this line." Sometimes though, you're working with a writer for whom that is simply not apt - like Harold Pinter.
Helen MirrenA war film can be propaganda and they're very valuable as propaganda, as we realized in Britain in the Second World War. Film as propaganda is a very valuable tool. It can also demonize, which is the dangerous side of a war film as propaganda. But there are war films that are not propaganda. It's just saying 'This is what it's like.' For 99 percent of us we don't know what it's like. We have no idea. So to reveal that to the audience is powerful.
Helen Mirren