I haven't tried to buffer myself. I like rolling the dice.

I want to be a part of something, and when we define movies now based on how they do on the weekend. We live in a society of "thumbs up, thumbs down."

I don't think I'd have been as good as Bruce was. He was a better JFK than I would have been.

When I played Robin Hood, I knew the great role was Alan Rickman's and it didn't bother me. I always think that leading actors should be called the best supporting actors.

I think there's true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of.

I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check.

I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.