I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.

The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.

I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.

Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

I never feel I repeat myself. I really go out of my way to amuse myself. I would be bored stiff. If I feel the déjavu when I'm doing something, I stop and rethink and rework it.

The great thing about Burgess's work is the dichotomy of making the hero or anti-hero an immoral man. And that's what makes it interesting. Because, you know, you are sucked into kind of like this guy.