I Am Confident Only When

I'm An Optimist. I Hope If A Movie's Good That It Will Be A Success, But That's Not Always True, Just Because Of Popular Taste Or Any Other Reasons. When Something Doesn't Do Better Than It Deserves To In Your Mind, It's Pretty Transparent - You Usually Know Why. Is That A Comfort? Yes, Because It's Logical. Does It Make You Happy? No, Because If You Think A Movie Is Beautiful Or Interesting, You Want To Share It. Sometimes You Make Very Interesting Movies That Aren't Meant For Everybody. But This Is A Capitalist Society, So Everything Conspires To Put Value On Whether It Sells Or Not.

I Love Sam Neill. The Thing That I Always Say About Him, And I Think It's True, Is He's So Dry. When He's Serious, I Think He's Joking; When He's Joking, I Think He's Serious.

I Guess They Often Cast Me As The Bad Guy, Because I'm Not, Er, Conventional Looking. I Look Sort Of Violent. I'm The Odd One Out, The Outsider.

In Films You Do A Scene, You Play Around With It And Unless You're Doing A Lot Of Reshooting, Which No One Has The Luxury To Do, You Deal With The Problem For A Day And Then You Move On. On Some Level, It Never Allows You To Go Very Deep Into What Performing Is About.

I Don't Worry So Much About The Audience. I Want Them Very Much To Be Involved And Enjoy The Movie, But I Try To Just Inhabit The Character In A Full Way, Where I Can Create A Personal Stake.