No matter how many times you do it, you don't get used to the sadness - for me at least - of coming to the end of a film.

Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.

I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's abrasive and wrongfoots people then, y'know, that's great. But I hope it involves an audience.

If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world.

No matter how many times you do it, you don't get used to the sadness - for me at least - of coming to the end of a film.

Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging.

I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.