I definitely acknowledge that 'The Matrix' and Trinity had an influence on female action-oriented characters in television and in film. I think it's awesome.
'Angus' was my first real film, but I had been acting for about 3 threes before that as well.
I think that in any role you have, whether TV or film, it's hard to do comedy and drama within one story.
In a film, you have to externalize things that are internal and of course it becomes a debate about to what extent you do that.
Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience.
The first film role I deliberately chose to play after I came out was a raging heterosexual, John Profumo.
I was always interested in films and thought that was the path I should go down, but I didn't start pursuing acting until I was 17.
It's your living room, it's your life, go nuts. You like ? Tape it and go over it like it's the Zapruder film.
Watched Star Wars in 77 and that's when I got into watching films. I was just blown away by it.
For us in England, the relative value of the pound against the dollar, that has a huge impact on how easy it is to get our films made in the U.K.
A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.
In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a serial kisser refuses to leave me.
A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.
I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty.
They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film... a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.
In film roles, I play a lot of heavies and a lot of bad guys, so I tend to be the jokester and the good-time Charlie on the set.
As a director, or just a film fan who wants to enjoy the festival, Cannes is the worst place to be. But it must be a paradise for distributors and importers.
It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.
The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your mother-in-law.
Authors of books are not given very much control over the films that are made from their books.
