But I feel that I have a responsibility to help the film and I have relations with the studio and with those who put up the money so that I can tell a story that I believe in.

If you have done well in whatever business you are in, it is your duty to send the elevator back down and try to help bring up the next generation of undiscovered talent.

Look, I might have lived in England for the last several years but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.

I have done films where we all thought the director didn't know what he was doing and it is going to be a gobble gobble turkey. And you go and watch it and it is great.

Whether its Veep or Homeland or The West Wing - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.

There's something very interesting about the way each individual actor approaches stuff.

The audience, the place youre in, has everything to do with how your performance goes.