Well, I think I’m a feminist, just by the virtue of the fact that I believe in equal rights for everyone.

I love just going out and sitting down in the park along with the thousands of other people who apparently have no work to do during the day. People come up to me, but they are generally really nice. New York makes it easier, for me at least. People manage to be enthusiastic and sort of sane at the same time. And that’s lovely.

A friend often says I'm an old man in a young man's husk. I like that. I am old-fashioned in some ways.

There is always this thing of will you get too old for your part? But people are playing a lot younger than they actually are in real life. I don't think it's as big an issue as a lot of people are making it out to be.

I'm somebody who is very, very proud to have been a part of the British film industry all my life and to have kind of been involved with a very important piece of British film history.

How irritating it must be for people, to be bombarded with me!

Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.