Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.

When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.

We are now living in a jungle where the strong eats the weak,we are not better than the Arabs to despise them.

There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.

I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something.

Awards are like applause, and every actor likes to hear applause.

Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.