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

Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.

Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact.

I think the thing about film is, as it gets proved by a lot of young filmmakers now, that the medium will just go on reinventing itself, and so you just hope to be a part of that and not a part of some kind of endless regurgitation or 'Here I am doing what you know I do' kind of thing.

You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.