You Cannot Learn A Lesson

If The Director Wishes To Print It, Then You Have A Series Of Choices, Maybe Millions Of Choices Within That Minute-and-a-half, Or 80 Seconds, Or 2 Minutes Or However Long Or Short The Take Is, You Have All Those Choices Committed To Celluloid. I Find That Absolutely Thrilling.

I Don't Want To Be Like The Actor Who Rehearses Everything In The Bathroom, Then Comes To The Set And Carries On Completely Uninterrupted While The Other Actors Tiptoe Away.

All The Great Writers Root Their Characters In True Human Behaviour.

There Are Some Directors, Lesser In Confidence Or Skill, Who Make The Actor Feel Very Uncomfortable Because You Feel You're Auditioning For Them, Every Day, And That's A Terrible Feeling On The Set.

If One Is Going To Offer Children Stories That Underneath The Story Must Be Something That Will Inform, Stimulate And Guide, I Love To Be On Board. I Think Anything That Resonates With History, As Does The Jungle Book And Watership Down, Reflects Patterns Of Behavior, Power Struggles, Deprivation, Migration, Survival, Joy, Love, Betrayal, And All Of These Things. It's Tragic That Children Are Encouraged To Ignore History. We Ignore History And Any Literature That Is Historically Based In History. Even Though Both Of Those Films Involved Animals, Of Course They Reflect Human Behavior.