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.

It has taken a long time for me to be able to really just be in front of the camera.

You need to be disciplined and you need to try to occupy a zone of acting that is always quite scary because you don't think you're doing anything.

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

Violence is a very ugly thing. Violence is often so casual on film, and made to look so cool and so sexy, but violence is a repulsive, repugnant act that human beings inflict on each other. It shouldn't seem to be cool and sexy, ever really.

I think the older I get, the less I should be doing.

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.