I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.

I loved having a crew. I loved being the person who woke at six in the morning and knew where to put the camera. I loved watching the actresses cry, and to know that if you were clever and didn't do too many rehearsals, that it just came that way.

Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.

I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.

I understand the joy of having a female actress like Charlotte [Gainsbourg] and watching her give everything, and be able to capture it.

I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream.

If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you.