You want people to identify with the person on the screen or in the theater, but you don't want them to identify with you as a person.

I've got a great family and a beautiful house. I feel very lucky as far as my lifestyle is concerned. I'm not really interested in fame and all its trappings.

My house is very clean apart from a very small part of it that looks as if we've been burgled, which is my office.

All actors think every job will be their last.

I've moved into directing as well as acting, and it has taught me never to take casting personally.

You look at any war zone and you talk to any soldiers and they have to blank out - in order for that to work for them, in order for them to survive they have to blank out something in themselves in order to do it.

I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.