Ring up your parents and ring up your kids and tell them that you love them.

I think it's absolutely fascinating that in Berlin the parliament can discuss actively the role of their soldiers in Afghanistan because is it still possible, literally, for a German soldier to take up arms.

There are a few writers that one has a relationship with that means, basically, you do whatever they say. One is Caryl Churchill, and the other is David Hare.

One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature.

Most theater methodology is predicated on the idea of repeated actions. That's what you work toward. Having the actor repeat the same moment eight times a week. In a film, it's getting that one moment right.

When I got married, my mother was very surprised. She said: What on earth is going on? I thought you were gay?

I have never been motivated by money in my life. You can't make choices based on what the financial return might be.