I Mean, Artistic Processes Are All About

The Kind Of Acting That's Wholly Literary Or Cerebral Is Wrong. It's Useless For Me To Have Actors So Much In Their Heads That They Can't Be Organic.

As A General Habit And General Tendency, I Prefer Not To Bog A Piece Down With A Great Number Of Transitory, Contemporary References, Because In The End, I'm Concerned, Not In An Abstract Way, But An Actual Way, With Creating A World Which Has A Universality To It - Even Though What Goes On Is Made Up Of Texture And Detail, Contemporary Detail.

I Feel Very Much Ideologically, Politically If You Like, And Emotionally Part Of The European Cinema.

There Is A Great Tradition Of Independent Filmmaking In The U.s. That I Absolutely Respect. There's Some Wonderful Stuff That Comes Out In This Country Against All The Odds.

When It Comes To Thinking About How A Character Talks, There Are Literary And Language Considerations. For Actors To Be Able To Differentiate Between Themselves And The Characters They Are Playing While At The Same Time Remain In Character And Spontaneous Requires A Sophisticated Combination Of Skills And Spirit.