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.

Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them.

I don't play long parts. They must be short parts, but they've got to be parts that mean something, that matter, where people will notice when I'm on the screen, and people will remember the character after they've seen the film.

Johnny Depp, as far as I'm concerned, is number one. Of his generation, there's no one who can touch him. Some performers, today, it's like looking at holes in the air.

I was once asked what I thought was the most disquieting thing you could see on the screen and I said, "An open door".

I've done a lot of films that have become iconic, not necessarily because of me.

I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers.