I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.

I love what I do.

I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else!

I don’t know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.

I’m woefully one-track-minded.

I don’t feel my son should pay the price for what I do.

If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker’s workshop is not the place to express it.

How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don’t?

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don’t know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.

When it comes to parenthood everyone thinks they will be terrible at it. We don’t think we have it in us. Then you find out that you do, which truly is a miracle in life.