It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them to like.

When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story, the story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I'm struggling with - my own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.

Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.

Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.

Whether he's doing great acting or not, you're seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor. What he does with it, that's something else, but he's got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that's why he has endured.

It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom - it was almost overwhelming.