Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

When you're really working well with a director then you can be as outrageous as you like and so can he. And there's no worry about it.

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

Developing characters is a collective process, on one hand; it's an individual process on the other. The truth is rarely pure and never simple, as dear Oscar Wilde would say. A great of it, of course, is, you collect as much information as you can and then you put it into the mulberry of your mind and hope that you come up with a decent wine. Sometimes you do; sometimes you don't.

People say you never retire in this [film] business and I say, well, not until they retire you.

I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think that's definitely a gift of genes or whatever.

I think an actor is very like a sportsman. You have periods where you're in terrific form. Everything you touch seems to work, and come right. And other times, when you're working really hard, it's okay, but it isn't scintillating.