I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.

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

With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way... Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom.

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.

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

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.

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.