I could never write. I would just be too lonely. What's great about acting is, it's so collaborative.

I think mystery is kind of great. I don't know anything about Bette Davis or Katharine Hepburn or Ava Gardner - not really - and I like that. I love watching their movies because they're my personal movie stars. I don't know what they eat and who their trainer is.

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

Often Hollywood crews go into third world countries and I don't believe they behave well.

I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.

Now we're in a recession, and at war, so people want to see this chihuahua movie, The Fountain. To be told to come to terms with death, that death is the road to all - it's a very intense subject. But as with movies that are very unusual, that have come to be thought of as very interesting, one finds out at the time that they were not understood. So who knows? We'll see. A lot of people really, really loved it, and a lot of people didn't get it.

At the end of the day, flirting is a pretty universal language. Americans are more direct. British people are more indirect about everything