But the battles against loneliness that I fought when I was 16 are very different from those I fought when I was 27, and those are very different from the ones I fight at 44.

But actors with political views are a dime a dozen.

The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.

If not for John Adams leading a revolution against Great Britain...This would be the BAFTAs.

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.

There's such an advantage to being involved in the day-to-day details of each other's lives. It's a marvelous fabric to exist in.

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.