There's a part of bohemia I love. The lack of prejudice, the lack of aggression, I love the lack, for the most part, of competitiveness. It's more peaceful.

A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.

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 are some people who walk into a room and they oxygenate it, by their very being there's fresh air. Then there are those who come in with the smell of death and they suck the life out.

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

The fact in acting, you can tap into your darkest moments in life to your lightest moments. And people will watch it, and appreciate it, and even engage with you because of that. That's the greatest job one Earth.