We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music was at that time - would not have been on my agenda.

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.

I don't play villains, I play very interesting people

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.