I Get Plenty Of Time

I Would Absolutely Like To Play More Leading Roles. There’s No Philosophy - Well, The Only Philosophy, I Suppose, Is To Try And Do Different Things.

We're Interested By Public Personas And Private Personas, Otherwise We Wouldn't Put On With Actors Rambling On With The Same Kind Of Stuff, Over And Over Again, Saying Variations Of The Same Thing. I'm Always Amazed By How Fascinated People Still Are By Actors Because It's The Same Version Of Events That Actors Describe, All The Time.

Hitchcock Is A Big Ask. I Am Playing Someone Significantly Older Than Me And Someone Significantly Bigger Than Me. The Stuff I Find Very Interesting Is Why Certain Physical Things Have Come About. How Can He Be Light On His Feet When He Is So Big? How Can His Weight Vary So Much? Where Does This Rather Beautiful Voice Come From?

I Often Get Sent Scripts About Little Men In Big Situations. There's A Comic Element To It, Which Is Forces Stacked Against This Little Guy, And How Is He Going To Defeat Them?

I Still Don't Feel I Know Hitchcock At All. I Find That The More One Looks, The More Elusive He Becomes. But My Admiration For Hitchcock The Filmmaker Remains Undiminished. He Is A Giant Of The Cinema And The Darkness In Him Informs His Cinematic Language. You Can't Separate One From The Other.