I left drama school and went straight into a 10-week film for which I was paid £75 I might say, which for 1962 was one heck of a lot of money.

Bong Joon-ho is enormously sensitive to performance. He knows what he needs to see and that's all he needs to shoot. He is so daring. We don't do that in the west. We shoot everything.

I think it would be very difficult to play somebody if they didn't think they had any virtues or redeeming characteristics.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

When you're really working well with a director then you can be as outrageous as you like and so can he. And there's no worry about it.

Some directors involve waiting, and if you want to work with that particular director you're going to have to hang around.

Obviously, the arrogance of my own nature in regards to other people's work would suggest that I think I'm talented.