I'm more relaxed about how the editing process will create a performance and that, in a way, gives me a sense of freedom.

There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'

I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.

I'm interested in the spirits of people. In the theatre, there's the acting part of acting - and I'm not saying that can't be great - and there's the essence. To explore that essence, you need a key, a look, a gesture, an insight that unlocks the person's soul.

There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.

Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.

When I first filmed things, they were always slightly awkward.