In film, movies schedules are based on three things: actors availabilities, when are sets being built, when you can rent the place youre going to film in.

Its extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.

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

Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.

The journey that we go on as actors is an interesting one and sometimes a revealing one.

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.