If we don't accept loneliness, then capitalism wins hands down. Because capitalism is all about trying to convince people that you can distract yourself, that you can make it better. And it ain't true.

I always think of the word 'abandonment' when I think of the character.

Eleven years is a great length of time to prepare a movie, it would be wonderful to have 11 years of funded preparation.

I am the only living person in the English speaking world who didn't have the Narnia books as a child.

You can sit next to somebody on the underground, and you can look at them quite intensely, but you can never, ever know what they're wearing under their clothes.

About actors' lives... I'm not the person to ask. I don't live an actor's life and I really don't know. I probably read less about actors' lives than you all do. So, I'm in the dark about all of that, sorry.

We're like the raw food movement in cinema - so determined to give people things that do some good, that they recognize as real.