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.

When I was a young guy, I knew everything. Now I know very little. I know less and less as the time goes on.

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

What is so liberating about this whole business is when you see that, you know, big movies are going to come out, huge movies are going to come out, and then you see them up in Malibu in the little Triplex theater a week later, on the scratch negative, and you think...“This is show business. This is the great movie career. And it’s all finding it in the shoebox.”

I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.

Israel means war and destruction and we Americans are behind this war and I am ashamed of being American.

I am a bit of a solitude person - a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don't have any major friendships or relationships with people.