The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

Certainly as actors, and maybe as directors, you've got to hang on to something childlike. You've got to know what play is. I haven't worked with Mike Leigh, but I know him very well and there's something open in his eyes about what's in front of him. And the same is true of Alfonso in a Mexican, mad way. There's an enthusiastic response to something. Neil Jordan, the same, when he gets excited . You just want to know there's a human being in there.

I am the character you are not supposed to like.

Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me.

The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'