I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There's a period of mourning for me, definitely.

Without a doubt, rowing is the hardest thing you can attempt to learn in a short period of time.

Film sets are great fun. Film people are great people to hang around with. I don't want to run off and be distracted by other things.

I'm very much a bit of a ghost presence.

Over my lifetime, the car had actually transcended the fact that it is a car. It has become a venue.

I do believe in reading signs if they're really obvious to you. Things happen. Someone will say something to you today in the morning and then later on that day someone will mention the same thing and then the next day someone will mention it again. There's a reason why three people have said something within twenty four hours.

In America now every romantic comedy is interpreted politically. I can remember when I was promoting Black Hawk Down we were all being asked what it said about September 11th. Well, it was shot before that happened, so, nothing.