The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling that asks the really simple question: 'How do we live?'

The media can make anything true or untrue. So if you do 80 films and you play a bad guy ten times, then you're a bad guy, and then the media repeats that.

Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.

You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.

With acting it's your neck up there in the end. And if you think the director can't help you it's one thing. But if you feel they're reining you in when they need to be giving you some rope, or vice versa, then I just don't tolerate that.

Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else's dream.

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.