I've always thought that, in a sense, the more specific and sometimes even the smaller the world of a movie is, the more universal it is.

Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn't really like stage acting. The presence of the audience, the eight shows a week and the possibility of a long run were all unnatural to me.

We must agree to live in this world, with all that is unfair about it, without knowing why, if we wish to have a God in our lives.

I always think of the character as being me. But me wearing a 'coat', which may be a different way of speaking, moving or regarding other people. To me, acting is pretending, just like kids playing, only you pretend as if it were really, really real.

I always did plays in school because I thought it was fun, but it just never occurred to me as a thing to do.

It's funny, but three of my early films were with Liam Neeson, before Liam Neeson was a big star.

The voice-over world has changed radically in the time that I've been in it. It used to be this rather small, select group of people who did 90 percent of the work. Now it's kind of the reverse: 90 percent of the work is done by this very broad mix of people all over the country, and the guys who used to be the go-to guys are a much smaller percentage now. But there was this massive interest in voice-over as well as in the story, so I think that also added to the film's appeal.