I don't go for this auto-cannibalism. Very damaging.

I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act.

It was around 1985 before I heard the news of President Kennedy's assassination.

What I like is bottomless flattery.

It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year.

We were doing it under the most extraordinary circumstances, but the first out of the tent in the morning would be David Lean. He said to me on the very first day of shooting, Pete, this is the beginning of a great adventure.

I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else.