Something like 'Alien,' that was not so easy. If there's any genre I wouldn't mind not having to do anymore, it would be science fiction. It's just all to do with the toys, and there's so much hanging around.

It's a great relief to feel that you're working with someone rather than for someone. You don't feel that you're being tested, as it were.

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

My fathers a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

The first film is everything you want to say and how you want to say it. Lots of directors will do that and do it really well, but the second film is not so easy.

You can see areas where maybe you got a bit lazy, perhaps, or you see when you were really on form. I think an actor is very like a sportsman in that respect. You have periods where you're in terrific form.