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You're Playing A Character In A Drama Who Happens To Be Based On Someone Who Existed. It's Never Going To 'be' That Person, But It's Based On Someone Well-known, And You Want To Create Enough Of That Person For It Not To Be A Distraction.

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?'

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.

There Are Things That I Would Avoid, So I Have The Choice To Say No, When I Feel I'm Repeating Myself Too Much. But Then There Could Be A Reason To Do That With A Good Director. So I Think Actors Have To Have A Loose Philosophy.

I Didn't Sound Anything Like Capote At The Screen Test. It Was More Like Bob Dylan. In His Early Years. With The Flu.