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

You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film - you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up.

I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.

My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.

I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.