I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.

I love storytelling. If you strip all the bits away, what you'll find at the center is a storyteller. As I warm to my career and love it more, I have a sense that storytelling is healing, in many ways. You can reach an audience and heal, and by heal, I mean entertain and provoke. It's a wonderful life.

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.

The biggest surprise in a man's life is old age.

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.

I don't do anything that would ever come across as advice or suggestion, but it's just part of a debate. Like, "I would like to try this," or "Let me do another one with more stillness, let me emphasize that." Rather than "I think you should emphasize this, I think" - you know, I don't impose choices.