Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.

I don't like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them.

You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.

There's no such thing as an actor giving positive criticism to a director. The minute you say 'Don't you think it would look nicer', that director's going to hate your guts. Particularly if it's a good idea.

I find the world more absurd now than I did when I was a kid.

I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'

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.