He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.

It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard!

I'd gone into that restaurant and sat down and the waitress had taken my order and everybody else had seen me with this what must have looked like this creature, this animal, sitting on the top of my head!

I've been a professional actor now for 38 years. A long time. And it's wonderful to earn your living doing something that you love. To think people actually give you money for it!

We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable.