We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away.
I love a really good storyline.
In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.
Other people have a much better idea of what I might do than I.
I'm not that comfortable with actors receiving honours, partly because I think they ought to go to those who really help others.
I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we're also all capable of a sudden magnanimity.
In today's politics, it would be good to have politicians who are more upfront about what they felt and actually not trying to bend with every breeze. They're infuriating, all of them.
The films I enjoy seeing are those that reveal lives I was unaware of... in different cultures or whatever.
It's fatal to talk about acting. It sounds faintly ridiculous if you start analysing it.
People smile at me as if they know me. I just smile back. They probably might know me.
You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.
In fact I'd like to go back and live in Shakespeare's London.
We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.
The world would be a duller place without Moulin Rouge.
Oh, I think I've been entirely selfish with my career. I've done what I wanted to do, and not put myself out for anyone else particularly.
I haven't got a writer's discipline.
I love French films, and European films. They're not any bigger, but there's just a sort of definition, and a confidence, and strength to them. I'd always, given the option, go and see a French drama. Obviously, we probably get the better ones. But they're just sophisticated on many levels, and grown up, and quite profound - and we don't make films like that.
When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.
I never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn't a sad day in my life when she resigned.
I do always like to do things I haven't done before, so I'm always looking out for things in a different genre, or a different sort of character.
To do a blockbuster that isn't stressful is a delight.
If you're playing any real person, live or dead, you certainly have a responsibility to produce that reputation in some way.
Sweet Jesus, war does terrible things to people.
I see myself as a small 'l' liberal, but not coalition liberal, necessarily.
A make-up artist I know polished her Oscar and it lost its lustre. But if you don't polish it, it doesn't tarnish.
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