I Do Think I'm A Character Actor.

However Good A Communicator A Director Is, Unless They've Been Actors, It's Just Not The Same As The Shorthand You Get With Someone Who's Been An Actor.

Certainly, From Where I Stand, I'm Not A Specialist In Wildly Different Walks And Voices. But I Find As Much Variation And Nuance As What Satisfies Me In What I Do. So, I Don't Find This Particularly Different. He Has His Own Peculiarities. You're Probably Talking About A Cluster Of Englishmen In Suits But I've Done Quite A Big Cluster Of Guys Not In Suits As Well, Which I've Occupied Myself With. So, I Don't Find That This Is The One That Stands Out.

I Have A Very Long Relationship With America. My Mother Grew Up There And I Felt To Some Extent That I Partly Belong There. I Was Schooled There Briefly For About A Year.

I Don't Know If There's A Problem With Original Ideas... I Think A Healthy Film Industry Should Have A Good Supply Of Good, Original Writing.

I Always Thought The Biggest Failing Of Americans Was Their Lack Of Irony. They Are Very Serious There! Naturally, There Are Exceptions... The Jewish, Italian, And Irish Humor Of The East Coast.