I'm Not A Control Maniac.

Much Of What You Do As An Actor - It's Who's Around You, What's The Environment, Where Do You Fit Into This Thing. That's Really Work That's Impossible To Do On Your Own, At Least For Me. I Find It Hard To Pre-plan Every Element Of Everything I Do. It's Not My Thing.

I Don't Want A Trillion-dollar Empire To Run.

We Have A Tendency To Think Everyone's Idiotic And Everyone's Only Doing Something Idiotic, And The World Is Controlled By A Not-so-secret Group Of Morons. There's Great Truth In That, I Suppose, But Then It's Also Not True.

I've Done Quite A Few Big American Films.

The Most Evocative Thing To Me Is Probably When A Writer And A Group Of Performers Can Collectively Put Together Something Compelling That Asks The Really Simple Question: 'how Do We Live?'