Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.

The thing about acting is that it's fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what's given to you.

I don't think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.

Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there's pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do things that ultimately make them sad.

I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.

The most amazing thing is when you find yourself watching someone in the café or something doing something weird. It's amazing what people do, isn't it, when you just look at them, when you take the time to look.