Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it.

A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello.

My dad was a Communist Party member who fought for his country.

Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary.

I'm sick of very white teeth and lots of gymnasium practice. I'm bored, you know, send in the next one. I wanted a real man that I could believe was my brother, my father, you know, my next-door neighbor - a real person.

The more varied the characters, the better, as far as I'm concerned.

A good part of why I never went back to England was part of that, I didn't want to be in those sort of flowery films. But I think it's a nice change of pace-I don't know how long it'll go for. There will always be the Merchant-Ivory/Kenneth Branagh movies, but there's something else now-really, it's always been there but the Americans getting to see it makes all the difference.