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.

Film has changed vastly in the time that I've been an actor, and it's, I think, very much for the better. I think there are just magnificent films now, and they're blossoming in the way that the novel did years ago.

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

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.

People say you never retire in this [film] business and I say, well, not until they retire you.

Snowpiercer has both [optimistic and pessimistic]. It was essentially optimistic. The most pessimistic was my part, because of his knowledge. He knows how it started. The status quo, he knows, has to be maintained, otherwise there is no chance. He knows that this revolution is completely understandable and is also commendable. He also knows the negatives. In the end, that's not a very positive position to be in.

There are certain people that when they ask you to do a film, you just say, "Where and when?"