London is a very energising place to be.

As the years have gone on, I find one of the dangers of watching dailies... is you fall in love with moments.

I'm a relatively ugly character who's done pretty damn well in film.

For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans.

I terribly miss - we all miss, I think - somebody like the great producer Irving Thalberg. He had a foot in both camps: He understood us creative people. And he understood the money people.

The process of doing a play is an organic one and the process of doing a film is totally un-organic.

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!