I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else.

The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.

I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.

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

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

Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.