In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'

If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.

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

It doesn't make you feel very good being mean and fierce; it is much nicer playing people who are kind and sweet.

I was happy, I wasnt beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasnt what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I dont know how my mother did it.

I'm very wary of trust, you see.

Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence - then you're told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning.