It was very natural for me to want to disappear into the theatre, I am really very shy.

When I was working with Stanley Kubrick [on "Eyes Wide Shut"], he would always say, "You never tell the audience what to feel. Let them choose to have their responses."

If I fall over and make mistakes, I'll pick myself back up and hope for the best and try to conduct myself with as much authenticity and moral code.

As much as I have films and all that sort of stuff, a lot of my memories are to do with relationships and love.

Don't worry about something going away; enjoy it while it's happening. And don't worry about something that's not even real.

An actor who's a control freak, that doesn't work. We have to be malleable. We cannot come in and try to control or dominate.

That sort of detailed filmmaking is one, hard to do and not have it be pretentious, and two, have it tell the story, which is what you're taught, that cinema is the language of images and you really should be able to make a film with no dialogue and tell a story.