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But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself.

Audiences are smarter than ever; they know if filmmakers cheat an environment.

I think the context of an hour-long drama gives breathing space that you don't get in a film.

Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character.

One of the biggest challenges in my job is letting go of the movie once you go home at night, and knowing you can't do anything to your performance once you've laid it on film.

That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.

When I go to a film, you're taking it easy and you let things wash over you. That's what cinema's all about. You get involved in a world that's being created in front of you.

If you stay true to your ideas, film-making becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process.

To make a film is eighteen months of your life. It's seven days a week. It's twenty hours a day.