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

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

It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.

Why don't I like you?" "Because you think I'm an asshole, and I'm not really, I'm just British and, well, you're not.

Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

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

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.