You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.

Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary.

There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.

I don't care to analyze acting. On the other hand there is a fascination because distributors are putting out British films. You get films here with great performances you'll never see again. Why compare. We should go after the businessmen.

I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made or Bergman.

I get invited to an awful lot of Jewish functions.

The first role I ever did... I played a Nazi skinhead.