If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

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.

I've got a serious-looking head.

If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.

I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing.

How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.

I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out.