On film you put all your energies into a single glance.

Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something.

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

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

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

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

I think the thing about film is, as it gets proved by a lot of young filmmakers now, that the medium will just go on reinventing itself, and so you just hope to be a part of that and not a part of some kind of endless regurgitation or 'Here I am doing what you know I do' kind of thing.