Sometimes it's a character you want to play or a story you want to tell. Sometimes it's just to pay the bills.

I find that when I play reality-based characters, it is only as fun for me if I have a lot of time to do research. If I don't it just isn't exciting but if I do, it can be fun because I can learn about that person and the world that they live in and I can become somebody else.

I just finished a film with Michael Radford called Dancing at the Blue Iguana.

Sometimes you pay a premium to get what you want.

Unfortunately, I ended up kind of getting sadly duped, in a way. I haven't had an agent in 10 years, and now I'm doing some of the most interesting films I've ever had an opportunity to play in.

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.