The movies are funny, in one way, because you think of everyone being as beautiful as the dawn, but that isn't true.

What's difficult for American audiences is that they're used to a system here where you can get an actor for five years or even seven, and that is signed for at the audition. Whereas in England, no agent will give you an actor for more than three years.

I'm seen as a chronicler of the class system, which I don't think is unfair.

I just don't believe in generalisations.

What does she do?" "She's a producer." Of course, in Los Angeles this doesn't mean much more than "she's a member of the human race.

If you're in the movie or in television, your failures are very public, and so are your successes. You weigh them up against each other, really.

Life is a game in which the player must appear ridiculous.