Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.

I want my weekends off and I want to put my kids to bed. Those are good reasons to want to be in 'Batman 2'.

You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you'll be O.K.

The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.

When you play a character that is so emotionally closed there are times when you ask yourself if you are doing enough and if it's reading. That is where you have a director, who is the barometer of what you are doing.

I tend to read non-fiction.

At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave' you were a racist.