I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.

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

I don't torture myself. And I do the work because of the pleasure involved. I'm satisfying a compulsion I find nigh-on irresistible. It's not necessarily because of the work itself. I just feel the need for a period of regeneration afterwards. Like leaving a field fallow when you've grazed too much on it. I feel depleted.

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

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.

I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.