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

Approaching a part or thinking about taking a part, I never think, 'Is that person like me?'

Chemistry is really about two people who like to act together, I think. It's like tennis in the most cliched way. It's like if you hit the ball, they hit the ball back, and they don't hit it into the stands, and they don't put the ball in their pocket and walk off - and they don't argue with the umpire, you know?

Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that they've got an idea and they want me to fit into it or they want me to come up with an idea myself or I'm supposed to be more revealing than I've been, and to me it just sounds like something I don't want to do.

The critical mind is the creative mind.

I don't want to know what happens in any movie that I go to see.

In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive.