In the old patrician world there was a custom once a week you had to eat a meal with your slaves and get to know them as people.

I like challenges. If you're involved, as one is, in filmmaking, you want to challenge yourself. You don't want to repeat what you're done before.

People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rational behind it.

One of the things that I was interested in about Moriarty was - he's so manipulative that he doesn't need to commit violence himself or kill people - he can get everyone to do what he needs to do. And sometimes they don't even know that they are being manipulated by him.

I keep mementos from everything I've done. I've got my cab driver's license from 'Happiness.' I've got a pair of glasses and a belt buckle from playing John Lennon. I've got a pair of sunglasses from playing Andy Warhol... It's all in a box in the garage.

I think you always learn something in every character you play onstage, either personally or creatively.

I really wanted to get out of England.