I wait and see what scripts come my way and then try and make a decision within the choices that I'm offered. I see what turns up, and if it's something I'd really rather not do, or I think it's too similar to something I've just done, I'll wait and hope for something else.

Steven Mackintosh

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I'll never forget travelling to New Zealand for three months to make the 'Underworld' films - that was pretty special.

Steven Mackintosh
new never never-forget forget

I have lots of memories of staying at campsites in the West Country and France, of the Carpenters playing on the eight-track, and of my dad cursing under the broken-down VW camper van. I loved camping, but I wouldn't much fancy it now - I'm too old to rough it.

Steven Mackintosh
loved dad memories country

In 2005, while filming an independent movie with Elisabeth Shue in New York, I was put up in the most gob-smackingly beautiful, spacious, split-level loft apartment in SoHo for six weeks. It was so big that you could skate-board around the place, and since the job took place in the summer, my family got to join me there, too.

Steven Mackintosh
me you family beautiful

I love everything from soul to electronica and classic rock to weird rock. I'm a real cratedigger, so wherever I go, I search out a vinyl shop to find some unburied treasure - records by under-the-radar artistes.

Steven Mackintosh
weird search soul love

My family are the most important thing to me.

Steven Mackintosh
important-thing me family important

I'd like to do a contemporary London thing, working with like-minded people, possibly through improvisation.

Steven Mackintosh
through like london people

I just wasn't meant to do Shakespeare. I'm not vocally equipped; I've got this flat, nasal, East Anglian voice. I got to understand the fantastic words Shakespeare wrote but never got to fly with them.

Steven Mackintosh
fly words understand voice

It's often disappointing when you're sent scripts, and you see why you were sent it; they want you to repeat the same thing you've done before.

Steven Mackintosh
see you done want