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.

The big problem with literature is people tend to take the dialogue from the book, forgetting that everything that surrounds it is literate, therefore not knowing quite how to put that on screen.

I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit.

Some directors involve waiting, and if you want to work with that particular director you're going to have to hang around.

If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

The truth is rarely true and never simple.

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