When you are shooting action, there is a satisfying thing because your objectives are very clear.

When you're doing those operation scenes, you not only have to be on top of the dialogue and the rhythm of the dialogue and what's happening dramatically, but you've got to technically get the rhythm right, so that everything is fitting with the dialogue at the right time. And you're performing the operation to the audience that's watching it. Thackery has to present it, as well. In some ways, that's the most challenging.

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.

When I started in the theater, the joy for me was playing different parts, and I get set alight by different people and different worlds. The biggest joy for me is jumping around and going from that to this to that, never feeling that I'm any one thing - because I'm not, and we as people aren't.

I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.

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

The financial implode is bound to be reflected in the movies that are being made, there's no question.