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Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation.

Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate.

I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.

But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.

I don't like, and I've never been very good at, close-up shots. As soon as you have the camera right there in front of you, it feels like you're in a different reality from the person you are acting with; you lose any real connection with them.

In a way I feel completely frightened of dealing with other human beings at all, yet here I am sticking my face in front of a movie camera all the time.

I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life.

When I am in front of the camera or on stage, I am not me.

I mean, if a camera's on you all the time, you don't get real moments.

I guess people wonder if I'm the same on camera as I am off, and I'm pretty much the same, I really am. But that's always asked of me.