In filming you're waiting. You're waiting for lights. You're waiting for people set things up. And when you're not waiting, you're repeating. And neither is conducive to spontaneity, you know. Comedy makes you very, very neurotic because you think, I - but did I nail it?

The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn't know well.

I don't know if there's a problem with original ideas... I think a healthy film industry should have a good supply of good, original writing.

You have to be ill if you want to get better.

Most actors will tell you they have some sort of dream of doing something other than what they're doing.

However good a communicator a director is, unless they've been actors, it's just not the same as the shorthand you get with someone who's been an actor.

I never saw myself as Mr. Ugly, but I'm not that handsome. I can sort of be made to look quite a lot better or quite a lot worse.