It depends who the director is you know, I mean Ken Loach for instance. I've done up to 32 takes with him.
We met in Cracker. I played a maniac fan who murders a policeman and she did my makeup. I thought anyone interested in me looking like that must have genuinely liked me.
When I read Housekeeping, it wasn't from the point of filming. It was months and months later that the idea of making it into a movie caught.
It was three years after I'd finished the script for Gregory's Girl that I got to make it, but I prefer That Sinking Feeling as a film.