I feel very lucky because I don't think there's any part I can't play. There are parts that scare me more than others.

Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.

That's what I like about the movie business: you're always in contact with wonderful and interesting people.

Have you ever danced with the Devil in the pale moonlight?

I began to think that the finest modern writer was the screen actor. This was in the spirit of the Fifties where a very antiliterary literature was emerging - Kenneth Patchen and others. I kind of believed what Nietzsche said, that nothing not written in your blood is worth reading; it's just more pollution of the airwaves.

There's probably no one who understands Method acting better academically than I do, or actually uses it more in his work. But it's funny - nobody really sees that. It's perception versus reality, I suppose.

The most difficult thing about being well known? Getting out of a hotel room at 4am.