Older people say, 'Oh I loved you in 'Sense and Sensibility,'' and that's the only film they want to talk about. Equally, there are people who only want to talk about 'Galaxy Quest.' And there's a whole bunch of teenagers who only want to talk about 'Dogma.'

I was coming from a very cerebral, dark, difficult, layered play by Christopher Hampton and doing an action movie in Hollywood (Die Hard) with explosions, and I was holding a gun.

That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.

I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.

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

The difference between being an actor and a director is simple. The director has to hide his panic; the actor doesn't.

From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.