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

How do I respond to criticism? Critically. I listen to all criticism critically.

I don't miss scenes at all the way that I used to miss them when I was younger making a film. It's actually quite fun to get rid of them now.

I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood.

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.

Crazy is so hard to play, there's nothing you can really tell an actor.

It's a gamble you take, the risk of alienating an audience. But there's a theory - sometimes it's better to confuse them for five minutes than let them get ahead of you for 10 seconds.