I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid.
I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it.
Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral.
I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative.
Thank you to everybody who voted for me, and to the British public for their encouragement over the last 17 years
What goes down on film is different to what you see with the naked eye.
I went being unemployed for three years to being the lead in a British feature in the days when we only made two a year, 1990. It was ridiculous really.
Twelve years on sets watching directors, I've taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot.
Theatre is expensive to go to. I certainly felt when I was growing up that theatre wasn't for us. Theatre still has that stigma to it. A lot of people feel intimidated and underrepresented in theatre.
It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents.
Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.
I don't see a lot of films. I'm quite choosy, but there's certain films that stick out.
On The Others, very atmospheric and probably mysterious is how I would say it felt to be on the set. It felt just a little uneasy, the atmosphere that we were trying to capture.
I had bags of energy as a kid.
We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world.
I had to help to coax the performances and I really enjoyed that extra responsibility.
I want to direct but I think I'd be bloody awful and I don't want to produce but I think I'd be a very good producer because if I believed in something I'd be able to protect it.
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