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

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.

Actors should never give interviews.

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.

My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.