Film has become such a central part of our culture now that I think sometimes too great a weight is placed upon it in terms of scrutiny and analysis. There's a lot of rather specious professorial stuff that swirls around films.

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

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

As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.'

I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.

Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.

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.