The Monmouth Coffee Shop is the best place in London

The nice thing about New York is that you're finally able to wear those winter clothes that have been sitting in your closet in mothballs

I questioned everything. I didn't see a character developed in Platoon at all. The character in Blue Velvet was much more fascinating to me

I really fight for my privacy.

Doing a film, or being sent scripts to look at a certain character, it's very odd for me. I tend to take it very personally.

To quote Agent Cooper, 'I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange.'

For the time it takes to make the film, you are treated like a cosseted pet. Then the process is over, and you're hung out to dry. It's like being a mink.