If you want your freedom, you have to be willing to work hard to exercise it.

I suppose I can do more for a script as an actor than as a writer - in the film sense.

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

Decent people shouldn't live here. They'd be happier some place else.

Charlize Theron and Cate Blanchett are very good actresses.

Being pigeonholed is the death of all actors.

I don't want to direct a movie as good as Antonioni, or Kubrick, or Polanski, or whoever. I want it to be my own. I think I've got the seed of it and, what's more, that I can make movies that are different and informed by my taste.