I went to meet Joe Johnston, the director, and he's charming. I've been very lucky. Most of the directors I've worked with are charming. But Joe's a particularly charming man, and he showed me lots of designs and, rather memorably, welcomed me to the Marvel Universe.

I get plenty of time to re-engage with the world I'm trying to depict, so I'm not always living in these parallel worlds.

The script for 'Infamous' was so poised between tragedy and comedy. It's a dream part. One reads those scripts with a sense of melancholia. When you read a script that good I remember thinking, 'Oh, this script is too good. They'll never give it to me.'

They know you're not Alfred Hitchcock, but you need to be enough Alfred Hitchcock for them not to be bothered by it. That's a reassuring thing.

You can't deny reality just because you can't explain it.

I'm very interested in people, so if a character happens to be real, there's that much more to look at.

I do always feel very proud and flattered by being asked to be a part of American productions playing American characters.