I think acting is a mixture of instinct, imagination and inventiveness. All you can learn as an actor is basic technique.

I didn't want to be known as a man who only made horror films. I made some - very few.

There are many vampires in the world today - you only have to think of the film business.

I wasn't a spy. I'd have been spotted in five seconds. Yes, I was in intelligence, but that covered a multitude of things.

I lived for 10 years in Los Angeles, and the one element that surpasses everything else - that you are very conscious of - is fear. You can smell it.

I love Chicago. It is my new favorite city. It is the perfect place to do any kind of theater.

Peter Jackson's instincts are extraordinary, as is his stamina.