I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.

Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.

I was a student in London in the '70s, so CBGB really wasn't on my radar at all. Obviously, I was aware of the emergence of the Police in England and as an art student, I was very aware of David Byrne, but I suppose my musical taste at that time certainly didn't stretch towards the Dead Boys or the Ramones.

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

Do you know that moment when you paint a landscape as a child and, when you're maybe under seven or something, the sky is just a blue stripe across the top of the paper? And then there's that somewhat disappointing moment when the teacher tells you that the sky actually comes down in amongst all the branches. And it's like life changes at that moment and becomes much more complicated and a little bit more boring, as it's rather tedious to fill in the branches.

I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.

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.'