I love it when a plan comes together

I'm a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.

I love working with children and this young boy, Thomas Sangster, is quite a remarkable young actor. He raises your game, you know. He certainly raised mine.

...Venice has been the living future of contemporary American history since its inception.

It's always fun to do the fight sequences and then to complete them, because some of them are quite complicated - with guns and so on - and there's always things that can go wrong. It's fun to shoot those things because we rehearse them very strenuously. It's fun to shoot them, and fun to know they're finished, that they're in the can so to speak.

Your compassion is a weakness your enemies will not share.

I've made many films and only a few times I've played real people.