I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script.

I'd love to do a Western. A real Western like John Ford used to do. There's not too many of them made, so I don't know if I'll ever get to do that. They're awfully hard movies to make.

I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words.

I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?

I love England and the historical aspect of it.

What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me.

When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything.