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

I wanted to dismantle the bollocks that there's a military structure to a gang, with a leader, second leader, the good looking one, first babe, second babe. It's far more arbitrary than that and their values shouldn't be romanticised. They aren't something you want to sign up to.

It takes a very strong brain to resist the absolutes, the myths that the media and the politicians peddle - the idea that if you are too kind, where does it all end? That not to help someone is somehow a good idea.

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

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

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.

Nine out of ten delinquents are frustrated actors.