My fathers a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.

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

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

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

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

I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick.

I don't like no confusion.