When I Was Making Films [early In

I Wonder What It Means When Americans Say I'm An American. In Britain The Culture Is Basically The Same From One End Of The Country To The Other. And When I Came Here And I Saw Americans Who Live, I Don't Know, In You Know, Northwestern California As Opposed To Americans Who Live In Louisiana, As Opposed To Americans Who Live In The Nevada Desert. English Even Is Literally A Picture That I Have In My Mind Of An Oak Tree In The Field, A Single Oak In A Green Field. And Also When I Think Of My Russian Roots, It's The Landscape That I Connect With As More Than Maybe The Poetry Or The Drama.

You Could Build Three Hospitals With The Cost Of One Film And I Take That Very Seriously.

I Don't Believe That If You Do Good, Good Things Will Happen. Everything Is Completely Accidental And Random. Sometimes Bad Things Happen To Very Good People And Sometimes Good Things Happen To Bad People. But At Least If You Try To Do Good Things, Then You're Spending Your Time Doing Something Worthwhile.

I Can't Help Being Christian Because I Was Brought Up In Britain, And The Morality Of Christianity Is Part Of The Fabric Of This Country.

I Still Suffer Terribly From Stage Fright. I Get Sick With Fear. Not Every Night, But At The Beginning And On Occasion - Not Necessarily When I'm Expecting It. You Just Have To Cope With It - Take It On The Chin And Work Through It, Trying To Use The Adrenalin To Perform.