I'd done "Gosford Park," a film that Julian Fellowes had written that Robert Altman directed.

I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.

I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.

There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it's stunning, and there is nothing to match that.

One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still acting.

I had a very good English teacher who said to me that she thought I ought to do it. She - I don't know, she saw something thank goodness because I think if it hadn't been encouraged by somebody that serious, I'm not sure what would've happened to me.

People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.