I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.

Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people.

I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.

American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.

I have a yearning someday to do one of these huge juggernauts.

A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak.

Great acting is all about being in the moment, being in the present tense.