Guys, particularly in the West, go to the gym and train for hours and hours to pick up something that is heavier than them. Why would you want to do that?

In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.

I used to be a rabid reader, but now it's scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can't drop the ball.

I just don't like the whole Hollywood thing.

I'm in four different films this year, and I have four different accents. I sound different in every film. You have to love a character to play it well, and change in my work is what I want.

Most of the time, you find that the smaller the budget, the more the project is about something substantive.

The darker the character, the more interesting.