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

At times of the severest depression, humor is what binds people together.

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

I feel like I'm the luckiest man on the planet.

The script will point you in certain directions and I go the opposite if I can. I try do do one thing and tell a different story with my eyes. I believe what's more interesting is always what's not being said.

Anyone that knows me knows what I'm about, and I'm very much a British actor, a European actor.

I like to be working and moving - the worst thing you can do to me is stick me in a room all day while you're lighting a shot. That just kills me.