Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect. Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.

One is that you legislate according to natural selection, the other is that you don't. You have compassion, you try and help people. It's a fundamental clash between two people who happen to love each other, which complicates everything.

I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.

You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.

I'm not a World War II buff. I know a little bit about it, I was taught the other side of the story in school, so it was unfamiliar to me, the idea of a German resistance, and yet it was considerable.

When a movie is called 'searingly honest,' it's almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.

I am a fan of rehearsal. I like doing it [scene] over and over and over and over until it looks like you never did it before.