I want to know why I'm alive. I want to understand. It's like exploration; it's like someone being interested in a place and its history, digging into the earth and looking for it, searching - it's a passion.

I really don't think that the Oscar changed my career much because I didn't want it to.

Acting is a tough business, and you need to be in good shape mentally and physically.

You make your own path as an actor. Nobody does it for you, so you have to invent yourself.

George Clooney is trying his own way but he's struggling too because he has to deal with America. Yet, if he has a foot in Europe, it's not for nothing.

I like travelling and if I have to come to Hollywood to make a movie I will, but otherwise I'd never move there. It's very much an industry town and that doesn't really interest me.

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.