I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me.

You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.

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.

There's no worse feeling in the world than realizing the play you've directed doesn't work.

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.

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

I am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium.