It's such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Branagh or James Ivory. You know that you're going to do a day's work and at the end of it, it's going to be good.

I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.

Ryan Gosling. He was a good kid, good actor. I like him very much. What was the name of the movie? I've forgotten it. Fracture.

I'm more and more convinced that life is a dream. What has happened to me is surely a dream.

We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.

You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?

I remember coming to New York, in 1974 to do a play here called Equis. And I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets and I thought, "I'm home." I felt really at peace here.