Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

The more you do it, the more you learn to concentrate, as a child does, incredibly intensively and then you sort of have to relax. I remember the first film I did, the lead actor would in between scenes be reading a newspaper or sleeping and I'd think, 'How can you do that?'

o matter how much research you do, or invention you do, whether it's a character from a novel, a completely invented character or someone who actually existed, it's a work of faction. By the very fact you only have an hour and a half or two hours to tell a story, you're telescoping events and it is, in the end, a work of imagination.

The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different

Oftentimes you walk on set and then suddenly you're in bed with someone who you've never met before.

It's interesting when you get those roles, which seem like nothing on the page, and you kind of subvert them. It's hard to say no.

It's been a long time since universal suffrage, and I'm sick of the old white men running the show.