The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.

It must be hard interviewing actors.

I like to learn about things.

I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.

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

I don’t like to rehearse. And I couldn’t understand how you could go through eight weeks of rehearsal, without exhausting every possibility. To the point where, you know, you would just lie gasping on the floor!

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.