It never ceases to surprise me, the people I get to work with. I'm in a French film with Sandrine Bonnaire? I adore Sandrine Bonnaire. I'm doing a picture for Robert Redford? The Sundance Kid? I have to pinch myself sometimes.

Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.

The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success.

I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.

Playing Shakespeare requires technique. You don't play a Bach toccata by getting in the mood.

People ask, 'What's the best role you've ever played?' The next one.

But, I do think, on a very simplistic level, that we can project onto dogs because they are so innocent. They don't come with a lot of baggage.