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

I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.

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.

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

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

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.

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