Actors tend to get better with age. You start cutting away the useless stuff and achieving a point of effortlessness and simplicity, which is all you want to do, with any art at all.

My life is really precious. I don't want to spend it watching ambient TV that just drifts through you. I've got better things to do.

One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.

I think the James Bond thing has sailed. But of course I would want to be a Bond villain. They are great parts. I think it's highly unlikely, but one can always dream.

Acting gives me a chance to be people I will never be, in real life. I like changing who I am.

I often think that drama helps people feel less lonely about things.

One of the reasons a lot of actors go into the business is that for a short period of time, you get to be other people who you can only fantasize about being, by and large.