Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.

I love acting. It's the one job I know of where you can go in, go through complete catharsis - emotionally, physically sometimes and mentally - and at the end of the day say, 'See you in the pub, guys.

Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that's what they are - they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve profit and gain.

When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.

In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of.

What point is there to all the wealth and power that America may have if they can't look after its own?

The films that I really enjoy now are films that are made by, for wont of a better word, mavericks.