 I just love jumping into someone else's life. It is a relatively cheap way to experience things you would be too scared to contemplate in your own life. |
| With the situation now, people might be intrigued to see how a country coped with war all those years ago. |
| Sometimes people say to you that you should try to be in a bigger film, but it's the way it pans out. |
| What was the reason for invading Iraq' Was it a humanitarian crusade or an economic one' I would be inclined to say the latter. It was the same with the Civil War, because the landed gentry's money was being stolen by the king. |
| You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don't make movies; we do. |
| It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets. |
| My focus never wavered; I never accepted the film was not going to be finished. |
| I try and do films I know I'm going to enjoy watching as well as being in. |
| In terms of jumping into a character's skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring me closer to them. All I do is what's required to achieve what I want to achieve. |
| I got involved in script development from the beginning. It was nice to see how a film gets made right from the beginning. It was quite hands-on for me. |
