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I've always viewed myself as a behind-the-scenes person rather than in front of the camera.

If you're an actor, you're at the mercy of a script. You've got far more control if you're the photographer.

As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant. And sometimes the camera is an X-ray machine, it can pick it up.

As an actor you have to have a strong vivid imagination as you're working and when the camera's rolling, but there's certainly a part of you that is aware of real life, that you're making a movie.

As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'

The camera is the slave to the actor.

So many actors are not open in front of the camera - they have a persona.

One wants to think that - and this is really a stupid thought - that through your art or whatever you do as an actor you can actually affect someone else's lives and thoughts or whatever.

Audiences make their minds up about people they see on screen, just like they do in real life. That's what fascinates me in film. You see a character and have to think: is this person different to what I assumed he was when I first saw him?

It's an incredible privilege for an actor to look into the camera. It's like looking right into the heart of the film, and you can't take that lightly.