With Theatre, You Have To Be Ready

As You Get Older, You Suffer Fools Less Easily. That's Why There's All Those Cranky Character Actors. I'm An Exception. I'm A Sweetheart.

I'm More Interested In Talking About What I Do. And I Don't Think People Are Interested In My Personal Life. I've Never Had A Hollywood Life. I've Always Been A Worker. But It's True: If You Know Something About A Person Outside Of The Movie That Is Really Repulsive To You, It's Hard To Shake. So I Prefer To Do My Speaking Through The Work. I Don't Want People To Know Anything About Me, Because That's Not Important. I'm More Interested In The Me That Takes Shape Through These Characters. The Other Stuff Is Personal And Too Easy To Trivialize Out Of Context.

I Love Sam Neill. The Thing That I Always Say About Him, And I Think It's True, Is He's So Dry. When He's Serious, I Think He's Joking; When He's Joking, I Think He's Serious.

The Real Difficulty For Smaller Films, When They're Made Independently And It's Time To Go For A Distributor, Sometimes If It's A Tough Film And The People Who Financed It Need Their Money Back Right Away, It's Much Easier And Lucrative To Take A Dvd Deal.

In Films You Do A Scene, You Play Around With It And Unless You're Doing A Lot Of Reshooting, Which No One Has The Luxury To Do, You Deal With The Problem For A Day And Then You Move On. On Some Level, It Never Allows You To Go Very Deep Into What Performing Is About.