One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another.

As much as there are intellectual choices to be made and all the rest of it, a great actor has the ability really, to disappear and lose themself in a kind of mystical fashion. My appreciation and fascination with true acting is really all over the book, definitely.

You work with each individual actor as you perceive their needs to be. It's something that you've figured out in the weeks of pre-production.

I was always very curious about other people. I would always stare and my mother would say - just please close your mouth!

It is really hard when the actor you pictured can't do the film.

Every work coming from the creator is about getting the demons out, and each character in those stories had a different personal crisis to get through.

Deirdre Maddon has an extraordinary, almost celestial way of telling a story. There are so many great writers now - although I also want to go back and read all of Dickens again.