If I Had A Gun

I'm Interested In The Spirits Of People. In The Theatre, There's The Acting Part Of Acting - And I'm Not Saying That Can't Be Great - And There's The Essence. To Explore That Essence, You Need A Key, A Look, A Gesture, An Insight That Unlocks The Person's Soul.

I Felt It [shakespeare's Coriolanus] Is Sort Of An Examination Of Our Dysfunction As A Nationalistic, Tribal Entities. I Think The World Is Rocking And Cracking Open In Weird And Worrying Places. And I Think Coriolanus, The Play, Reflected That.

And Although I've Been Very Fortunate In The Film Work That's Come My Way, I Need To Get Back To The Stage. If I'm Away For A Maximum Of Two Years, I Feel Something's Wrong.

Having Gone Through Editing Process, I Can See That In Actor's Faces There's Point Where They're Not Managing Their Performance And That's, I Think, The Best Place To Be. You've Done The Homework, You've Learned The Lines, At That Point You Just Sort Of Let It Out.

I Was Grateful To Have Two Weeks To Shoot This One Scene In Harry Potter. It's A Big, Big Scene, But They Have To Deliver. And They Have High Expectations.