Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

The real truth about a lot of life's mysteries can be explained by science but people don't want to get in bed with science because it's cold. They prefer religion, myth, drama.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

As I've gotten older I've become a devotee of 19th-century authors, such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot.

I'll instinctively know that I identify with a character.

I've turned down jobs because I've said, 'Honestly, I can't find my way in. I can't do it. I love you, as a director. I think the script is good. You deserve better than I think I can do.'

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.