There just doesn't seem to be a market for something with aspiration anymore.

My emotional investment started when I read the first scene of the actual drama [45 Years]. I can't explain it, there's no logic to it, but the notion of one's youth that somehow comes back but is gone, a man of my age connecting to that timing of life.

My occupation has been a great deal with David Foster Wallace, and he didn't manage it, and he was very much looking for something that isn't totally selfish, and finding meaning. It's a struggle.

The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.

The old actors in the old days, they used to go on tour, to get the play ready for the West End, and to learn their lines. The old timers used to say, "Be very careful, dear boy, what you get in to during the first weeks of a long tour."

There just doesn't seem to be a market for something with aspiration anymore.

It was still quite late when I got married, 30s, I don't know.