I'm probably working on three different scripts at any time, so there's never a time where I've got nothing to do.

L.A. is fun, but it feels like one of those towns in the north of Scotland where there's an oil rig just off the coast and whether or not you work for the oil rig, everyone is connected to it.

Going out with other actors is never good; actresses are neurotic, and actors are horrendous egotists.

All of this talk of recession offends me. I am delighted that bankers have less money.

When I say I hate nostalgia, I hate things set in the recent past where everything is shiny and new.

Sometimes films about oppression or suppression can be quite maudlin and quite dour. Sometimes you need a little sugar with the medicine and I think of myself as the little sugar.

Reviewers are the worst laughers in the world.