Film just chews up actors like nobody's business, and I'm not particularly interested in being chewed up. I think the camera can only look at somebody's face for so long. I guess you have to accept the roles you think are right at the time. You can build a career, but these days there doesn't seem to be that much interest in people being actors.

I think the downside of the Internet is that speaking-or writing-has become the point in and of itself.

When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.

When I see daughters with their fathers I wonder what that would be like, although not in a way that immobilises me.

I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.

You learn an enormous lot through failure.

It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.