I've learned, having been on a lot of sets, the good news is that by definition you are surrounded by experts. They get fired if they're not - unlike in the theatre!

I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.

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.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

Why don't I like you?" "Because you think I'm an asshole, and I'm not really, I'm just British and, well, you're not.

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

My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line.