Everybody has many people inside of them; I think we tend to present the one we feel is most appropriate at first, in order to gain acceptance or achieve what we want. It gets really interesting when this technique fails, and other levels are revealed.

The image of all the cars leaving pastel-colored people at the same time has never really left me as an anti-ambition for life!

It's great to sit and talk about the films and the people I work with, rather than where I buy my socks or whatever.

I'm only really interested in taking a part if it's nothing like me.

I don't really use the Internet or the newspapers to find out about people.

Growing up in England, you're sort of spoiled, in a way. You sort of take it for granted that within a half-hour's drive, you could be walking around a stately home from the 1700s. It's not very hard to do - in California, you've got to take a flight!

I believe that if you can discover something of the truth of a person, then you will start to understand, and to understand is to move towards, if not like, then at least an empathy of some kind.