Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.

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.

There's, like, marks next to an actor's name or something, and boy does that go up and down! Somewhere in there, which always causes my mate Miss Ruby Wax great hilarity, I was offered a biopic of Frank Sinatra. Even I knew that was a bad idea! They'll throw anything at you at certain times. So, you know, to thine own self be true.

If you judge the character, you cant play it.

I don't play villains, I play very interesting people

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

Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.