My wife and I have now founded Lavender Pictures. If one has one's own company, there are very few surprises, but there's still the actual thrill of trying to get these projects off the ground. We're meeting with some measure of success. Always, now and at any stage of my career, I'm open to ambush, but there have been the most extraordinary set of coincidences, which continues through my journey, and I find it thrilling. Often, out of left field and quite randomly, comes a project and I think, "My god, there you are!" It's quite beautiful, really.

I'm so dependent on reacting to the other actors on the set, and to the director. I'm very responsive. I react. And I treasure the energy that reaction gives.

There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well.

You want to know what I want? I'll tell you what I want. I want back what Bobby Fischer took with him when he disappeared.

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

There is always something about the villains that I'm able to play, quote unquote, that isn't villainous.

I don't want to be like the actor who rehearses everything in the bathroom, then comes to the set and carries on completely uninterrupted while the other actors tiptoe away.