I'd like to see (the films) go back to the books. I think (the films) need to be dirtier. I think that you should feel the man playing Bond could die at any moment. You don't feel that any more.

If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.

I like going to the gym every day because I'm in physiotherapy every day.

Shakespeare has way too many lines. My ideal theatre piece is about 40 minutes long with no interval.

My mother gave me a real kick toward cooking, which was that if I wanted to eat, I'd better know how to do it myself.

There is, come to think of it, a kind of Judi Dench quality to McCain.

hen Baillie [Walsh, writer and director] wrote the movie for me I wasn't doing what I'm doing today, so when we actually came to make the movie it seemed silly to change it. But who knows? That's the way things go. What was interesting for me - and what was always interesting in the script - was that you've got someone who appears to have everything, or at least has the opportunity to have everything, and he's f**ked it up, or lost it.