The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent.

Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.

I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can.

If you're a movie star, there's a cycle you go through: adoration, adulation, you're used, and then you're discarded. And it happens again and again, always in that sequence.

My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.

I think that Poe is so resonant because he represents that part of us that is in misery or sorrowful or wants to explore the darkness. He wrote a great story called 'The Imp of the Perverse' about the instinct towards self-destruction. Poe is the godfather of Goth literature and that whole movement.

But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em.