My work has always been important to me. The reason I continue to do it is because it's so much fun for me. I love my work and so that's what keeps me in the game.

There's no independent satisfaction without the success of the film itself. The feel that you have done the best you can to support the film.

I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.

I had no expectation of the level of adulation that would come my way. I just wanted to make a living with a regular role in a television series.

I'm like a fireman. When I go out on a call, I want to put out a big fire, I don't want to put out a fire in a dumpster.

Hell of a thing when a man's got good health, plenty of money and absolutely nothing to do.

I don't think nostalgia is very useful to me. There is a story to be told, there's behaviour to create or to bring to the screen that will help tell that story, and nostalgia is just not really a big part of my emotional package.