The work of John Lennon was marked by its exquisite beauty and by its brutal honesty.

When you know you have 1,000 people sitting on the edge of their seats in silence because of a shift that just happened on stage, there is no better feeling.

The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.

I don't want to show deleted scenes. I don't like an audience looking at what the movie might have been - if it's in the movie, it's in the movie.

If I'm sick of me, I can only imagine how other people feel.

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.

I liked it because it was such a dangerous script and showed just what human beings are capable of. Here was a movie in which Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, who always win in every movie they ever do, simply don't win. I felt that was outrageous for a commercial movie.