I like playing characters who are out there on the edge, where they can explode at any moment or fall off the precipice.

I love men. I've always been drawn to poets, artists, and madmen. Sometimes all three in one

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

I had never done Shakespeare before, but I don't think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments when I thought, I'm just not going to be able to pull this off.

There was a period of time when I was very political, when I was at the university. It was like the late '60s, early '70s and I was a dissident like everybody else I guess. Now I follow it but there's nothing that really grabs me. The most fascinating thing to me right now is China.

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.