I certainly play people on the edge quite a lot. I am interested in what makes people odd and what makes them different. In life I try to play the edges. I have a horror of the herd. There are many, many different sorts of people. A lot of people are fairly uninteresting. I want to play the interesting ones. The villains are always more interesting to portray. Shakespeare knew that.

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that's what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything.

Anywhere I can ski in the morning and sell a movie in the afternoon is good.

Most people are robust. If a man puts his hand on a woman’s bottom, any woman worth her salt can deal with it. It is communication. Can’t we be friendly?

I liked the theater. I liked the people. I liked the time that we worked.