I'm very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour..

I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to….

Shakespeare villains were extraordinary. Macbeth, Iago, Richard III... They're so richly layered that a British actor would find it almost impossible….

Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn't there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can't..

In England, it's now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It's not even on my passport anymore. They've taken Mister away from me..

I hope I'm able to achieve more on camera through stillness, through focus, through being quite careful to do less on every take, rather than more. S….

They're a very strange lot actors, very strange people..

It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity..

If it's a really well written villain, he probably has more layers than the archetypal good person. So that would be very attractive to an actor. No ….

I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child..

That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and….

There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well..

If you are a libertine, if you're not given to long-term faithful relationships, you tend to project your behavior onto everyone else. It's like the ….

I don't do anything that would ever come across as advice or suggestion, but it's just part of a debate. Like, "I would like to try this," or "Let me….