Early days, I was a bit racked , particularly when I did Hitler, for CBS . That was hellish. That stayed with me for quite a long time.

I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.

When I look back at my past and the way I grew up, I grew up on communes. That was meant to be.

It's much more fun to be ugly.

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.

There's a kind of unwritten rule: Don't say anything at all, and everything will be fine. It's a producer's medium. The directors aren't there to make any decisions. They're not going to change anything.

I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.