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.

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.

I have lots of favourite memories but I can't say that I have a favourite film.

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

The image onscreen takes you forward, it's the driving force of the piece and it's also the information that you're given.

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

I thought ['Sailcloth'] was a terrific script. Elfar Adalsteins, the director, is bound to be a director we'll hear from, and the whole thing was really enjoyable.