I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.

I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.

The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.

How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.

Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.

If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.