If you try to go for a laugh, it's death to the comedy. Personally, that's how I approach comedy. But I'm no expert.

In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.

I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.

It's really hard to make a good film; it's really, really hard. So, the director's very important, and a character that can be described with more than one or two adjectives, maybe with contradictions. Contradictions are always good because that's truthful.

I like acting too much and it's too, I'm just too busy doing that and I'm too hungry for it, to get behind the camera. I mean, unless I could act in it, too. I don't think I've got the right brain. I'm too disorganized.

Fear is like the steam that fires the combustion engine. You need fear to get a performance going.

You get perspective on things when you're away from your child, and in a way, your love for them becomes even deeper.