As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.

I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other.

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.

The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.

Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work.

I'm open to any project, but my joyful projects are those through which I can say something and through which I can speak to the an audience of people in the world, and I can be that vehicle through which something can be said, I find that entirely thrilling and joyful.

I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.