In many cases for an actor it's a comfortable position to be in. But it's harder to fail as a director.

Its quite pretentious, really, isnt it? The notion the audience is going to be interested in you for an hour and a half. Think too much about that and anxiety takes over.

I discovered that silent film is almost an advantage. You just have to think of the feeling for it to show. No lines pollute it. It doesn't take much - a gaze, an eyelash flutter - for the emotion to be vivid.

I don't care about my image.

I want to work with a director who becomes my brother, my father, for two months. You give yourself over to that person.

I wasn't dyslexic, I was just very slow. I passed my time daydreaming.

It was always about the story rather than the character.