With the movies, you do your preparation on your own. It's much more internalized and ... the actual performance is a kind of, just trying to capture one moment at a time, for the first time.

I'd grown up loving English films, I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid.

There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is.

I live right under the Hollywood sign, so that every day when I drive home I'm reminded of why I'm here.

Barry Levinson is such a deceptive director, because he seems really lackadaisical. I'd never worked with him before, and I almost got the impression that he didn't really care that much because he was so laid-back. Sometimes we'd finish filming hours before the day was over, which is just unthinkable in any other film experience I've had. I couldn't believe that Barry had the passion for it.

Yeah, I’ve played a lot of instruments, and I played in a lot of bands growing up and I’ve even had to play music in a lot of films that I’ve done.

When you speak in another accent, it affects you. You can't help but be changed by it.