I don't like it when people are trying too hard. That goes for clothes, for acting, for everything. It's just not good when it seems like you're making too much of an effort.

You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other, the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.

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.

It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.

I did it for the money. But its not worth much if you cant face yourself in the mirror. Respect is the ultimate currency.

I find sometimes that if you do too many takes, it starts to become meaningless to me. It is hard to sustain it for me. I don't want to do too many.

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.