I can't stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they don't like the way I'm doing it they can get someone else.

I don't know why they gave me a knighthood - though it's very nice of them - but I only ever use the title in the U.S. The Americans insist on it and get offended if I don't.

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.

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

When I was a younger actor, I was very immersed in it, very "method" and all that. Now, I don't give a hoot.

No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.

I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful.