American Movies Are Often Very

There's Something About Being Cerebral, Intellectual, And Yet Emotionally Repressed [in Being Villain]. If You Think Someone's Doing This [bad] Stuff And They're In Complete Control, That's More Scary Than If They're Out Of Control.

I Was Always Obsessed With Finding Truly Researched Images To Add Authenticity, Out Of That Came Something Totally Contemporary And Modern. Research Is Very Key To My Process Because Over And Over Again, Reality Provides More Interesting Images Than You Could Have Invented.

With The Coming Of Radio As A Mass Medium, Suddenly The World Changed. It Became About, 'can This Leader Project Emotional Connection Through The Way He Speaks On The Radio?' And The Anxiety About Whether He Could Do That, We've Inherited.

Thank You To My Wonderful Actors, The Triangle Of Man-love Which Is Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush And Me.

If You Look At Shakespeare's History Plays, What The Setting Of Monarchy Allows Is This Extraordinary Intensification Of Emotions And Predicament.