When you're younger you have a lot of ideas and you're probably more insecure, all those things. I work with young actors now and I see their insecurities and I make fun of them. I don't make fun of them but I make them laugh, because I know what they're going through. When you get older you think 'It's only a movie after all, it's not brain surgery.'

In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can't stand it.

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

Working with Katherine Hepburn, she said to me, "Don't act." She said, "Read the lines. Just be. Just speak the lines." I said, "Okay." She said, "You look good. You got a good pair of shoulders, you got a good head, good face."

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you're doomed; you're finished.

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

I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.