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They Seem Much Rarer Now, Those Auteur Films That Come Out Of A Director's Imagination And Are Elliptical And Hermetic. All Those Films That Got Me Into Independent Cinema When I Was Watching It Seem Thin On The Ground.

I Think It Will Be, As Always, Interesting To Compare Different Portrayals Of Hitchcock. I'm Very Honored That I'm Playing The Same Part As Anthony Hopkins.

The Script For 'infamous' Was So Poised Between Tragedy And Comedy. It's A Dream Part. One Reads Those Scripts With A Sense Of Melancholia. When You Read A Script That Good I Remember Thinking, 'oh, This Script Is Too Good. They'll Never Give It To Me.'

When Working Abroad You Work Pretty Hard, But With Time Off, This Is The Greatest Job In The World. You Drive. You Explore Memphis, Or Wherever You've Landed, Or Go And See Dr John, Or The Californian Landscape. And, Yes, I've Had A Few Good Meals.

Best Ever Was Filming In Barcelona Last Year, And I Had A Couple Of Scenes With De Niro. He's A Very Shy Man. Speaks So Quietly That People Tend To Bend Down And Adopt The Same Tone, Almost The Same Voice, Whenever They Talk To Him - Watching, You'd Think Someone's Offering To Carry Out A Hit For Him When They're Just Offering Him A Cup Of Coffee.