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The Worst Thing Is To Get Involved With People Who Aren't Passionate About What They're Doing.

I'm More Interested In Talking About What I Do. And I Don't Think People Are Interested In My Personal Life. I've Never Had A Hollywood Life. I've Always Been A Worker. But It's True: If You Know Something About A Person Outside Of The Movie That Is Really Repulsive To You, It's Hard To Shake. So I Prefer To Do My Speaking Through The Work. I Don't Want People To Know Anything About Me, Because That's Not Important. I'm More Interested In The Me That Takes Shape Through These Characters. The Other Stuff Is Personal And Too Easy To Trivialize Out Of Context.

My Dad Was A Surgeon, My Mom A Nurse, And They Were Always Out Working. I Had Five Sisters And A Brother. They Didn't Care What I Got Up To.

The English Patient' Is About The Coming Together Of A French-canadian Nurse, An English Patient, A Sikh In A Turban And Me, Caravaggio, And Each Of Us Is Seeking A Resolution To Our Own Problems.

The Real Difficulty For Smaller Films, When They're Made Independently And It's Time To Go For A Distributor, Sometimes If It's A Tough Film And The People Who Financed It Need Their Money Back Right Away, It's Much Easier And Lucrative To Take A Dvd Deal.