It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.

The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music was at that time - would not have been on my agenda.

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

If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.

You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.

One of the most, in a weird way, encouraging things a director can say to an actor - I know this as an actor - is when you ask them a question, they say, I don't know - 'cause it means there's some space there for you to find out. And it means that there's going to be a process.