In the end, the game is the same. Football is still football. Now, they may play with different formations, they may have a different idea of training, but the game doesn't alter. I don't mind how any performer - indeed, why should I? How arrogant of me if I did? - manages to get to what they have to get to. It doesn't matter how you get there, as long as it isn't going to destroy other people on the way.

My springboard is always the script. Even if the script is taken from a novel, I often haven't read the novel...

I've done lots of films with first directors, so it's not unusual for me.

Elephant Man [movie] was much more difficult physically. This had a couple of days. It was quite tricky. I had my leg strapped up behind me and I am a little older now. It was all marvelous, though. He [Bong Joon-ho] is one of the most fabulous directors in the world.

Lotte Lenya was all emotion. She wasn't anything but emotion. She was not an intellectual.

I do what interests me when I'm invited and do it as well as I know how and try to get better. That's all.

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