I'm very much a loner. I don't like long relationships with people and I always keep people at a distance.

I never cling on to hope or certainty. They're the enemies of peace.

I am young! Being creative and keeping your brain occupied is very sensible because if you don't you die, slowly.

I do the best I can - I know my way around [Russian method acting pioneer] Stanislavski, but I can't take myself seriously like that. I respect people who do it, of course. I just think I'm lucky to still be working at 73. You reach a point in life where you just think, "Show up, do your job, make sure the cheque's on the way," and that's it. I'm not hungry to do anything more, really.

I'm very much a loner. I don't like long relationships with people and I always keep people at a distance.

There's many a good tune played by an old banjo.

The reward is in the doing of it.