I just rely on the text to speak for itself and then speak it as I believe it to interpret it, and then just know that the rules of the world that we're creating allow for things to come to life, and then just trust in the process of making a film. Hopefully we'll make a sequel, because if we do, we had such a great time as an ensemble, I think the best thing to do would be to just take the whole cast back. This is Iain's idea and I agree with it. Just reincarnate all the characters and put them back into the world. There's no rules. Why couldn't we do that?

Of course I was a dork, but that's OK. Because all the coolest people I know were dorks.

Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy.

As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor.

Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man.

What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?

I mean, it was a mummy movie. It was a good film independent of its source. It that looks like Lawrence of Arabia on steroids in a lot of ways.