I Don't Feel Particularly Comfortable About Actors

Gardeners Are Good At Nurturing, And They Have A Great Quality Of Patience, They're Tender. They Have To Be Persistent.

You Have To Just Dive Over The Edge. You Haven't Got Time To Mess About.

Performance Is Made In The Editing Room, And I've Come To See The Truth In That - The Idea That They Say Performances Are Usually Made In The Editing Room Because What You Film Is The Raw Material. I Think Just Going Through The Process Of Saying, "which Take Do We Use? Why Is That The Take We Want? I Want That Take Can You Edit Again, I'm Not Sure That's The One, I Think It's This One." And Just Because You Go Through That Process, I Think Somehow It's Made Me Sort Of More Open About The [actor's] Possibilities.

In Shakespeare, Keep It Simple. Don't Over-inflect. The Speech Needs To Be Naturalistic And Simple And Accessible As Much As Possible.

I'm Not Very Good At Being Domesticated. I've Tried. The Domestic Life I Find Claustrophobic - The Rituals And Habits And Patterns.