I've done big studio films and the big studio films I've done, I've tried to do the interesting ones and the ones where I could live with myself in the morning.

If you're lucky enough to have done well, then it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down.

As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck.

I never doubted at all. If you ever doubt then you are in trouble. I never thought: 'I should do this or that in case I don't make it.' I never had a back-up plan.

You can't win a marathon without putting some bandaids on your nipples!

Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.

It's the way I feel about acting. That we are given clues by a writer about someone's essence or persona and it's our job to try to figure out which of those clues are true, which of clues we decide to follow and which of those clues we think are red herrings, or only in the way another character thinks of that character.