Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs.

In life, we all learn from everyone. But if you like and admire someone tremendously, perhaps because they think the way you do, or like the way you think, then inevitably you do.

The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors.

There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously.

In life, we all learn from everyone.

But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now.

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.