If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations.

I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out

I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging

All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy.

It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.