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

I think people do work too much. I've never been able to understand the whole 'make hay while the sun shines' thing. Either I want to work or I don't want to work.

I mean my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory.

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 parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted.

When you make a film, you sign a contract with somebody, and it's not only legally binding but morally binding. You agree to give this man a certain number of weeks of your life, and you just go for it as much as possible. Because, whatever happens, the film is going to come out, so you might as well try very hard to make it a good one.

My children are lovely. They're perfect.