i was playing coriolanus as well.great team around me, barry ackroyd was one of them, great designers, great script supervisors. >> rose: did you love being in the editing room? >> that was the biggest learning curve becae i've been on lm sets and i knew how... i'd experienced good film sets. i've watch sod many good directors. that territory wasn't new to me but the editing was a huge challenge. i went through so many different sort of weird awarenesss of the film just seeing all the raw material is bamboozling. i think you learn to mentally edit when you're watching. >> rose: indeed. >> you start off watching you see a whole take and if it's not good you think "it's not all good." you have tolearn to kind of look at it and. >> rose: know you can pick and choose. >> you can pick and choose. i think hard to watch myself and... >> rose: is it a physical thing or a performance thing? >> well, i mean i think everyone's hypersensitive about how they look and sound. i think most peoplere kind of... i think... >> rose: can

your directorial debut, you tackle "coriolanus," one of the most dark, tragic shakespearean plays. your decision to jump in that deep a pond, how do you come to that? >> i played the part on stage about 11 years ago, and it became an obsession. it's a political parable, if you like. it's a tragedy about... you see the crazy soldier who has no time for politicians that change their minds. and he loses it. and it's... i think it's a story that has a lot of resonance with things going on today. >> sure. >> economic uncertainty, people on the streets, people at war and politicians maneuvering and changing their minds and it just spoke to me. at the center of it you have this mother/son relationship which is the thing that's always moved me about the story. >> and it's shakespeare, so there has to be a little bit in there about the mother and the son. you know how that goes. guy had somish seuss. let's face facts. is it... when you... it seems to flow so effortlessly from you. did it... have you always been able to put yourself in those places? is there something about that language tha

[ laughter ] i do want to show a clip of you in "coriolanus."hing them, we nourish against our senate the cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition, which we ourselves have ploughed for, sowed and scattered by mingling them with us. the honored number who have not virtue. no, more power but that which we have given to beggars. >> well, no more. >> no more words we beseech you! >> you speak of the people as if you were a god to punish. not a man of their infirmity. >> it were well we let the people know it. >> were i as patient as the midnight sleep. by jove, it would be my mind. >> it is a mind that shall remain a poison where it is, not poison any further. >> shall remain! hear you, this triton of the minnows, mark you his absolute shall. >> why should the people give one that speaks not their voice? >> i'll give my reasons more worthier than their voices! [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: i mean, that's the way you do it. that's how you do it, man, you're so good! thank you so much. that's amazing. "coriolanus" is in new york and l.a. right now

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