Because of the way the business is structured, I have sometimes turned down scripts that I might otherwise have accepted had I known who was directing them.

Even in the most sophisticated person, it is the primitive eye that watches the film.

As an actor, I want to give in to the collaboration with the director because I don't want my work to be all the same. The more this can be done with comfort, the more variety my work has had.

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

I don't remember if I've been asked seriously to direct a picture. I understand that. I'm very good business for people as an actor and perhaps they'd rather I didn't.

I'm very fortunate in the sense that outside of cohabitating relationships and so forth, I've always got on just as well with women.

When you use a dialect, you worry that the people you're imitating will think you're making fun of them.