I've always liked American actors particularly. Because that was my first impression. I was very enamoured of America when I was a kid because we were surrounded by American soldiers during the war, the accent was very strange to me, it was very exotic and very captivating.

You still wake up sometimes. You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the lambs.

When I direct I try to keep it a unique design of my own. Naturally you're influenced.

I'm fascinated by the fact that we can't grasp anything about time.

Shakespeare's so bloody difficult, and I don't like failure. You can fail on film, but there's nobody actually there in the flesh to watch you failing.

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.