So how do you find the balance between keeping sane and being in demand? ‘I think Daniel Day-Lewis has a perfect answer to that. He just does a film every four years. That’s the answer. Sometimes I tell myself that’s how I want to do it, but then I’m too impatient, I’m too eager. Because it’s like playing for me. You know, the kid that plays cowboys and Indians in his room? That kid is playing, but he’s deadly serious about it. That’s me.’