[on Darkest Hour (2017)] I'm pleased the film's doing well but I've been in better films and others that you thought would do very well but didn't. I've done films up here in Scotland that deserved more recognition. The Legend of Barney Thomson (2015) was a good film. And Donkeys (2010) won the BAFTA as best film. But they didn't get great releases. The cinema chains all show the same films so it's a bit of a waste of time if you are making an independent film to try to do well. I did a film years ago with Tom Conti and Helen Mirren called Heavenly Pursuits [Heavenly Pursuits (1986)], which is a terrific film but it never got much of a release. You just can't gauge it.
