I have no role models. Many heroes. I have an enormous capacity for hero worship.

I would like to have children while I've still got the energy. But then I have the feeling that when I have children I'll stop performing in the same way, because you don't really need to perform if you have children.

I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.

I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.

I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished