As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.

Successful films are very dangerous things.

Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.

I have a feeling I will work for a long, long time. I like it a lot... and I don't know. I just have a feeling that I'm going to be one of those people who go on for ever.

The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

I can't get into all that physical stuff of having to have flawless skin... Sometimes you see people and it looks like someone's got an eraser and made their face a little blurry - their traits seem to go out of focus.

Baths are my favorite thing. I can have two, three a day.