Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.

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

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.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

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.

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