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I Like People To Be Surprised By The Turn Of Events. I Don't Want Things Just To Be Pat And Formulaic. If There's Some Sort Of Internal Combustion In The Character Or A Desire To Change The Way Things Are Going, That Makes For Conflict, Which Is The Essence Of Drama.

The Writing Is The Springboard For Your Intuitive Stuff And Then You See, Maybe A Colour Of What You Want To Achieve. Then You Bring In The Technique You've Learnt. But When You're On Film, You're Not Always In Control Of That. That's What Makes Me Believe In A Kind Of Collective Unconscious, A Sort Of Experience You Draw On.

We're Still Fighting Over The Same Issue - Equal Pay.

If You Only Took On Roles That Had The Same Qualities, Then I Suppose It Might Make A Critic Feel Better, If He Can See Some Kind Of Bedrock. Perhaps That's The Old Definition Of A Star, Someone Who's Always Going To Come Up With The Same Goods. But It Intimates Limitation To Me And I Don't Want To Think Of The Job Like That.

London Keeps Me Grounded. We Don't Get Praised Every Time We Open Our Gobs There.