I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.
For me, being a director is about watching, not about telling people what to do. Or maybe it's like being a mirror; if they didn't have me to look at, they wouldn't be able to put the make-up on.
We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough.