Casting is all about availability, as much as anything else.

Refreshing honesty has been getting me in trouble since I was five, but it's probably had some positive effects - like not being a liar.

Look at what people are trying to conceal, and you’ll see that they’re revealing everything.

I can work in London. A British journalist asked me if I had any trouble working with an English crew, as an American, and I said I might have if I was from Scotland, but I'm from Massachusetts, which is sort of Oxfordshire, but more intellectual. That's kind of unforgivable but you've got to let them have it.

A criminal has a kind of freedom by definition that the ordinary citizen doesn't have. The criminal's able to realize himself in ways not available to the general population, if you want to put it that way. They're interesting and unpredictable. Characters always have to break some sort of bound or other to be interesting. It also helps if they're paradoxical.

I think that gambling is a synthetic experience and that if you have any balls you gamble with your life. I have. So can everybody else.

Without English art, I never would have understood myself, my own family, or the New England world I lived in.