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.

My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.

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

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.

An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.

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.