Life is a lot sweeter, I think, than you can be aware of it at times.

I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a slightly older school of thought: 'give 'em nothin.' You don't plead guilty.

I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.

People don't know who I am, and that's not a bad thing at all from my end.

As soon as you start acting in an accent, you're sort of out of your comfort zone. Maybe people start getting used to accents after a long period of time. But as soon as you do that, it's not so much as capturing the sound of the way other people speak, it's being able to actually be and move around in the sound.

I think that story wins out over acting and that the thing as a whole is more important than the performances therein.

As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.