Casting the right actor for the right part is some unspoken thing between the two of you to communicate.

I'm not from a theatre background, I'm wary of rehearsals. But what I do like is hanging out together, on location.

There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them.

Id love to have another film to go on to. Im in the mood to work. But I have to be patient, you know, to find that particular kind of project. Occasionally Ill write one myself if I can summon up the energy.

Music stops you from thinking.

Studios are attracted by making money, and they're also trying to simplify things, going with the genre thing. The gambling instincts of a few years ago where you might make some thousands or a few hundred, it's nothing now.

It doesn't take any imagination at all to feel awed