On working on French Film:
I like the kind of questions it raises about what is being in love supposed to feel like and if that’s what it’s supposed to feel like, is that what you thought with your partner?
On filming at Waterloo Station:
I suppose as an actor when you’re stuck in the middle of Waterloo a working station, you have to find a way of being able to shut out everybody else and also the embarrassment of standing, kind of acting and emoting way when you’ve got lots of people standing outside the frame kind of watching and laughing and pointing really. That kind of thing, trying to cover up your embarrassment and do your job, that can be a little bit taxing sometimes. But for the most part I love Waterloo Station and I really like filming. This is what I think London looks like, so I quite enjoy it.
On Director Jackie Oudney:
Jackie, as a director she’s incredibly thorough and detailed and precise. She’s always really good humoured, regardless of what situations we find ourselves in, like today at Waterloo station. It’s been nuts, there’s people all over the places. You know you can’t point your camera in this direction, because you can’t see security and all that kind of stuff and she manages to keep her sense of humour and get things done. She’s great and as an actor, she’s very good with actors about asking for what she wants. Some directors don’t know how to talk to actors and they don’t know how to ask for what they want and you end up in some kind of cryptogram, you’re trying to decode what they, mean. She’s very straightforward, so from that point of view, it’s great.
On why he’s making French Film:
You don’t do it for the money; you don’t do it for your career. You don’t do it for any of those things, you do it because you want to and that lends a really nice atmosphere, because everybody’s there for the same reason. They’re there because they believe in the script and the director, the producers and the writer. So, you’ve immediately got a kind of positive attitude from everybody involved and then that makes it in some ways more pleasurable. It’s quite pure.
(Douglas Henshall - April 10th 2007 - BBC Film Network)