What it is is that comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write. Anyone can write, and then you leave it to special effects to make it look good. But comedy, you've got to do some writing.

I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.

I'm hoping there's an afterlife. As you get older, you hope even more fervently.

Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.

I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.

Am I a car aficionado? No: for me, cars have always been just for transport. I didn't even know anyone who had a car until I was 14 or 15.

Ive read an awful lot of books, Ive read alot of awful books