England In The '60s And

I'm A Lot Less Serious Than People Think.

I Think There Should Be Laughs In Everything. Sometimes, It's A Slammed Door, A Pie In The Face Or Just A Recognition Of Our Frailties.

One Thing I Will Say - My Job Gets Harder And Harder. The More You Understand About What You Are Capable Of, The Less The Instrument Can Do It Physically. It's An Inverse Equation, If That's The Right Phrase. I Just Slammed Those Two Words Together. It Sounded Right.

I Think The Thing About Film Is, As It Gets Proved By A Lot Of Young Filmmakers Now, That The Medium Will Just Go On Reinventing Itself, And So You Just Hope To Be A Part Of That And Not A Part Of Some Kind Of Endless Regurgitation Or 'here I Am Doing What You Know I Do' Kind Of Thing.

Certainly As Actors, And Maybe As Directors, You've Got To Hang On To Something Childlike. You've Got To Know What Play Is. I Haven't Worked With Mike Leigh, But I Know Him Very Well And There's Something Open In His Eyes About What's In Front Of Him. And The Same Is True Of Alfonso In A Mexican, Mad Way. There's An Enthusiastic Response To Something. Neil Jordan, The Same, When He Gets Excited . You Just Want To Know There's A Human Being In There.