I see myself as a character actor, and I've always been drawn to playing characters that are different from myself because acting is escapism for me. I've never been that comfortable playing people that are like me.

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

As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.

I've never felt that I've had some great fashion sense of my own - I tend to wear what my wife tells me to wear.

The research period of a film is the most exciting part of the process, and filming is sometimes a letdown because when you're dealing with biopic material, the real thing is always much more intricate than the story told in the film.

It's very hard to write music for a film because you're writing about somebody else's experience.

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.