When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant to you because being young is such a specific thing. Thank God for that. Thank God for the young people who go out and demonstrate against rampant capitalism or whatever.

My fear of drama school is that the natural extraordinary but eccentric talent sometimes can't find its place in a drama school. And often that's the greatest talent. And it very much depends on the drama school and how it's run and the teachers. It's a different thing here in America as well because so many of your great actors go to class, which is sort of we don't do in England.

I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones.

Flesh sells. People don't want to see pictures of churches. They want to see naked bodies.

They’re called action scenes because they do the acting for you. You don’t have to act in action scenes.

Film is a visceral experience so I think a good war movie is a valuable tool for making us understand what our military goes through, what the issues are, the good and bad sides of war and what we're asking our military to do.

Once a film gets into production, the actors sometimes begin to have more input than a writer does.