The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.

I play the sort of character who would sell his grandmother for career advancement, something I've come across a lot with actors.

Japanese women have always loved my films, even when no one else did. Ever since I made 'Maurice' in the 1980s, I've been getting hundreds of letter from Japanese girls. They definitely have a special place in my heart.

I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really.

Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think, that's an interesting part. And because they love acting, that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which it very often is.

At home, I hardly ever leave London. I don't like the countryside in England.

I don't think there's much point in putting me a deep, dark, heavy, emotional film because there are people who do it so much better than I do.