We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I like them.

I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary.

It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to.

When I'm acting, I'm in the director's hands. I'm very happy to be. I like to be focused on what I'm doing.

The ferocity of passion that is engendered by people when they don't like what you've done is really tremendous. It's intense.

Two billion people watched the royal wedding. Clearly, they're interested in that - the outside of what appears to be lives that have a certain amount of privilege. They have gifts, they have history, they have a sort of unusual and separate position, which maybe involves paying a price.

Don’t stand up when you can sit down and don’t sit down when you can lie down.