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

In the States it's more and more difficult to get an independent film off the ground, and you certainly wont get the opportunity to play something like that in a studio movie.

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

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.

I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.

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

A very, very impressive director, Tomas Alfredson. It's only his second film [ 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'], but he's a real find.