I'm not comfortable with walking the red carpet in a tuxedo and seeing all the women with their boobs pushed up and all the men dressed as penguins - particularly when the subject of your film is the nature of violence and humanity.

What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.

When I look at a person, or a character, it is in every case the beginning of an endless journey. And I don't suppose I know where that starts. I know that I have to, like every other person, make decisions and have opinions. But I'm real careful to not judge crassly or cheaply someone else's life.

The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright

The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing, which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.

But it's also another myth to think that you should be as tight as a drum and not have any frailties or fragilities.

I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.