Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

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.

One wonders sometimes, looking at the world, how it's dealing with itself. There are days when you wake up and you feel very optimistic and there are days when you feel pessimistic.

I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio...

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

Once you've started to dig a hole, you can't get out of it.

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