If it's a really well written villain, he probably has more layers than the archetypal good person. So that would be very attractive to an actor. No one chooses to be a villain; it's usually a reaction to something else.

Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.

I have never felt bereft of anything.

My line-learning is very special. I like to learn the dialogue of the whole film before I arrive.

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

What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones who devote their lives to it for the most part insist that it's a science. It's neither. Bobby Fischer got underneath it like no one before and found at its center, art.

I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies.