Americans are much more open than people in Britain.

I try not to pay any attention to clothes fascism and I'd rather be thought of as someone who has his own sense of style.

Stories have always been the things that entertain me and make me feel happy and sad and move me and give me the experience of being able to live many lives in one lifetime. It's the best thing about being alive.

When you come to actually act, it's a game. It may be a very serious game, but it's still a game. If you lose that sense of play, the work suffers.

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

I suppose I'm something of an eccentric dresser.

Change the scheme! Alter the mood! Electrify the boys and girls, if you'd be so kind.