It's interesting that in searching for monsters to play you often end up playing leaders.

My tragedy is that all I want is a dog, and yet I have been cursed with cats all my life.

I think when you work on a Woody Allen film the actors become a real company, probably more than on any other film.

Hopefully, any character I play has an anchor in reality.

I've always loved animation and animated films.

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.