I Would Always Play The Baddie, Incidentally.

You Look At The Greatest Villains In Human History, The Fascists, The Autocrats, They All Wanted People To Kneel Before Them Because They Don't Love Themselves Enough.

Everybody Is Great And The Chemistry Is Different With Everyone. That Is The Joy Of Acting - You Really Don't Know How It Is Going To Go Until You Turn Up. It's Like Playing Tennis, You Can't Plan For The Match You Are Going To Play Until You Are Actually Up Against Your Opponent And What Happens, Happens. That Is The Joy Of Being On Set.

The Weird Thing About Serious Acting Is I've Always Done Impressions Of People, All My Life, And I Did The Thing Called A Balloon Debate. The Idea Is There's A Hot Air Balloon Traveling Across The Atlantic And It's Going Down And You Have To Give A Speech As To Why You Should Stay In The Balloon. Six People Are Going To Be Chucked Out And You Want To Stay.

It's A Rare Thing When You Can Read A Script In One Sitting And You Haven't Looked At The Watch Or You've Gone To Make A Cup Of Tea.

I Definitely Go Through Periods Where I'm In A Particular Mood, Or There's A Consistent Imaginative Context That I Feel I'm In, And I'm Drawn To Certain Things. I Can Sometimes Feel It When I'm Moving Away From Something That I Was Once Interested In - An Idea Or An Exploration Of Particular Relationships. I Go, 'well, I Think I've Done That And I Don't Want To Do It Again.'