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

England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.

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.

A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.

When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.