Actors Enjoy Being Treated As Ordinary People.

Great Acting Is All About Being In The Moment, Being In The Present Tense.

I Feel Connected To The Second World War Because My Father Lost His Father In That War. So, Through My Dad And The Effect It Had On Him Of Losing His Father Young, I Always Felt Connected To The War. It Goes Back Years, But It Still Feels To Me As If We're Completely Living In It.

American Movies Are Often Very Good At Mining Those Great Underlying Myths That Make Films Robustly Travel Across Class, Age, Gender, Culture.

After My Grandfather's Plane Took Enemy Fire, He Was Denied Permission To Land At The First Available Airstrip. In That Classic British Bureaucratic Way, They Said He Had To Go Back To Your Own Airbase In The Midlands. They Crashed Between The Coast And The Airfield.

I Think The Thumb Print On The Throat Of Many People Is Childhood Trauma That Goes Unprocessed And Unrecognized.