And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.

The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don't dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with being an actor.

I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, and my rule is, well, they can't arrest me.

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

I think Julianne Moore is very, very good. I've worked with her. We did Surviving Picasso. I remember one scene we did together. She had to have a nervous, a mental, breakdown in this one scene. I didn't have many lines. I just had to make sure I knew I came in on cue all right. And I was just watching her walking though the rehearsal. I thought I know what she's doing, "This is going to be terrific." So they said, "Are you ready" and she said, "Yeah," "Ok, roll the camera." And all in one take.

You look closely enough, you'll find that everything has a weak spot where it can break, sooner or later.

I have no illusions about my position in this world as an actor or anything like that. I'm very realistic. Reality is a very liberating thing.