I Try To Avoid Doing Movies Where

I Think I'm Probably An Assassin And Not A Templar, But No Doubt We're Probably Run By People With Templar Mentalities.

The Fact Is That In England So Many Of Our Politicians Are Career Politicians - They've Always Been Politicians Since They Left Their Education. And In The Old Days Of Course Politicians Used To Be Fish Mongers Or Doctors Or Whatever. They'd Lived Life. These Days, Power Seems To Go To The Hands Of People That That's All They've Done. And I'm Not Sure That's A Good Thing, Because It Does Remove Them From The Realities Of Life.

One Always Returns To The Fact That There Are Just Too Many Of Us, The Population Continues To Rise And It's Unsustainable.

I Certainly Play People On The Edge Quite A Lot. I Am Interested In What Makes People Odd And What Makes Them Different. In Life I Try To Play The Edges. I Have A Horror Of The Herd. There Are Many, Many Different Sorts Of People. A Lot Of People Are Fairly Uninteresting. I Want To Play The Interesting Ones. The Villains Are Always More Interesting To Portray. Shakespeare Knew That.

I Was Not Naturally Intellectual, But Somebody Whose Interest Had To Be Whetted, Still The Case Sadly.