I've been very fortunate with the scripts I've had and the people I worked with.

I can't remember ever being involved in a fight in a movie where I haven't done most of it.

After writing a page, Hemingway would let it float to the ground. He never crumpled pages - he believed that if you crumpled them, you'd be insane in a year.

I feel for those 19-year-olds who get thrust into the limelight that young.

The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren't traveling that much. At 19 he travels to Italy. He goes to the Spanish Civil War. He goes to China, he goes to Africa so at that time to travel that much is really incredible.

One of the views of the [actor's] job is that whatever age you are, there's a role that's about who you are and where you are. There are parts for that age that you can bring things to.

Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can't sustain a career in just English movies.