A good part of why I never went back to England was part of that, I didn't want to be in those sort of flowery films. But I think it's a nice change of pace-I don't know how long it'll go for. There will always be the Merchant-Ivory/Kenneth Branagh movies, but there's something else now-really, it's always been there but the Americans getting to see it makes all the difference. |
Acting is a short, sharp shock, and then I have a two-year break to do some directing. I mean you have to stop-OK, be serious about it-so I've put the kids through school. |
Americans have bought lock, stock, and barrel the Jeremy Irons-Kenneth Branagh England. And it's fake. It's an absolute con. Merchant Ivory? Bollocks. |
Before I started, I worried about what I was going to say to the actors. It kept me awake at night. Sometimes you get the questions wrong. |
Bring back dueling, I say. Drive-by sword fight. |
Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary. |
Doing comedy for film is always a challenge because you are in the hands of the editor after the fact. I am hoping I can do some more soon, I enjoy doing comedy. |
Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do. |
Extra work sucks. Get out quick. |
For me, acting's just great fun. A lot more fun than making sculptures, so that's what I wanted to do. It wasn't any great calling-maybe years later, when I'm 60 or whatever, I'll pretend it was, who knows?! But acting is just the most fun I could ever possibly have in my life... and it still is. |
How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons. |
I believe there is also a Tim Roth Monastery. |
I can't do anything else. So if this falls through, I'm screwed. |
I didn't want to make soundtrack film or a gun movie. These are the reasons I wanted to make a movie. I wanted to make an adult movie. |
I don't care to analyze acting. On the other hand there is a fascination because distributors are putting out British films. You get films here with great performances you'll never see again. Why compare. We should go after the businessmen. |