The Kind Of Acting That's

I Can't Negotiate And Collaborate With A Character To Create A Distilled Dramatic Investigation Of The Raw Material. I Need To Work With An Actor. That Stuff About Actors Who Stay In Character All The Time Is Nonsense.

I Mean, Artistic Processes Are All About Making Choices All The Time, And The Very Act Of Making A Choice Is The Distilling Down And The Getting To The Core Of What It Is That You Care About And What You Want To Say, Really.

The Delineation Between The Actor And His Part Is A Practical Matter. When The Camera Runs, You Want The Actor To Be The Character.

Film-makers Should Remain True To Their Principles And Never Compromise, There Is A Real Revival In The British Film Industry But There Is A Danger That We Will Become Colonial Servants Of Hollywood. We Need To Maintain Our Own Integrity.

He's [constable] A Great Painter As Far As It Goes, But I Don't Think He's Remotely Interesting. Not Really. It's Very Pretty And It's Very Thorough, But It's Not Evocative, It's Not Dramatic, It Doesn't Do What Beethoven Does - It Doesn't Shake You Down To The Roots Of Your Soul, Which Turner Does. Constable Is Just Very Nice, Basically. And Moving On To Personality, Constable Was A Very Dull Character.