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I Don't Know If It's Harder But When You're Playing A Real Person You Want To Honor Their Memory - Even If They're A Criminal Or Someone That The Public Loathed. That Can Be Challenging.

Often Jobs Are Un-turndownable Even Before You Read The Script. You Go, "well, I Have To Do That."

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.

They Know You're Not Alfred Hitchcock, But You Need To Be Enough Alfred Hitchcock For Them Not To Be Bothered By It. That's A Reassuring Thing.

I Was A Fan Of Hitchcock, But More Importantly Than That, He Is Such An Inscrutable Man, And A Very Carefully Inscrutable Man. He Apparently Was Blank-faced With A Calm And Controlled Presence. I Was Immediately Anxious And Thought, 'how Am I Going To Get Behind That?'