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

I got used to [ Lars Von Trier] doing the narration for 'Dogville' and 'Manderley.' And I said to him I do these narrations for you but you never put me in a film! So he called my bluff and put me in 'Melancholia' and I was thrilled about that.

I find myself more interested in producing. Not because I'm interested in the financial side of it, but just getting together the right elements to make a film, that side of production. I would not be good on the financial side. It would be a disaster from the beginning.

The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department.

It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor.

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

I think an actor is very like a sportsman. You have periods where you're in terrific form. Everything you touch seems to work, and come right. And other times, when you're working really hard, it's okay, but it isn't scintillating.